Chor der Hochschule für Musik Trossingen & Ensemble des 17. Jahrhunders / Michael Alber & Lorenz Duftschmid

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Vespro dell Beate Vergine SV 206 (Vespers of the Virgin Mary)

Trossingen University of Music in cooperation with the Rottenburg & Tübingen Colleges of Church Music and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Choir, vocal soloists & instrumentalists
Jan van Elsacker Tenor
Prof. Michael Alber & Prof. Lorenz Duftschmid Artistic Director

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Vespro dell Beate Vergine SV 206 (Vespers of the Virgin Mary)

A semester project like this with Monteverdi's Vespers can give the students involved deep insights into a style and its performance practice under expert direction - a benefit for life. As an audience, we also benefit from hearing and enjoying the committed music-making of young voices and virtuoso young instrumentalists. Monteverdi's Vespers rightly retains its status as a masterpiece beyond all changes in taste: the then Kapellmeister at the court in Mantua brilliantly combined Renaissance polyphony and operatic gesture, splendour of sound and moments of the greatest internalization.