York Early Music festival

Various venues, YorkMonteverdi's Vespers (1610) is a musicological mystery. Was this vast compendium intended for complete performance? In what order was it supposed to come? And how did the erotic poetry from the Song of Songs end up in a work of Marian devotion? Practically the only thing we know about it for certain is that it is 400 years old, which was good enough reason for the York Early Music festival to commence with a series of concerts exploring the enigma.The main obstacle to present...

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