In honor of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Monteverdi's Vespro della beata Vergine, in 2010 Avie reissued the 1999 recording by the exemplary Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire, founded and conducted by Jeannette Sorrell. Even more than most scores of the early Baroque, this 90-minute piece is fraught with textual ambiguities, and the success of a performance can depend on the conductor's editorial as well as interpretive skills. Sorrell explains her rationale about just what to include and how ...
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In honor of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Monteverdi's Vespro della beata Vergine, in 2010 Avie reissued the 1999 recording by the exemplary Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire, founded and conducted by Jeannette Sorrell. Even more than most scores of the early Baroque, this 90-minute piece is fraught with textual ambiguities, and the success of a performance can depend on the conductor's editorial as well as interpretive skills. Sorrell explains her rationale about just what to include and how the parts fit together in the concise, informative program notes, but it's the vitality and integrality of the performance itself that are entirely persuasive. The music moves forward with the kind of dramatic logic Monteverdi exercised in Orfeo, and Sorrell gives the performance a compelling through line that feels inevitable and completely natural, and at the same time is full of delightful and unpredictable turns. Her forces, the orchestra Apollo's Fire and the small chorus Apollo's...
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