Details
Sacred Heart Church
Edge Hill
Wimbledon
London
SW19 4LU
England
Programme
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610
Performers
Grace Davidson – soprano
Julia Doyle – soprano
Hugo Hymas – Tenor
Nick Pritchard – Tenor
Matthew Best – Conductor
Academy Choir Wimbledon
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Academy Baroque Players
Programme Note
Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is a towering masteriece of the early Baroque - at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. This epic work offers up a dizzying array of textures and sonorities in brilliant instrumental writing, opulent choruses and moving solo arias and duets. Hosting a star studded lineup of soloists, Sacred Heart church in Wimbledon, with its cathedal like acoustics and exciting possibilities for spatial effects, is the perfect venue for Monteverdi's monumental drama.