Album Release: Monteverdi: The Other Vespers/ I Fagiolini

Album Release: Monteverdi: The Other Vespers/ I Fagiolini

This year marks the 450th birth anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi, baptised on May 15, 1567 in SS Nazaro e Celso, Brescia. The precocious young Monteverdi published his first collection, the three – part Sacrae cantiunculae at the age of 15 presaging a prolific output of operas and madrigals and sacred music. Monteverdi’s name is synonymous with the collection…