Monteverdi: Vespers of the Virgin / Lionel Sow

One must bring in works of the weight and standing of the Bach Passions to set anything of equal stature beside Claudio Monteverdi's "Vespro della Beata Vergine".

In this performance by the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensembles, the Marian Vespers promises to be a historically informed and highly virtuosic…