A profile of Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 the first modern composer.

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth, the BBC invited the American musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon to revisit Mantua and Venice (where Monteverdi worked) and to record his own appreciation of the music of one of the world's great composers.
Nadia Boulanger gives an additional view.
The music is taken from: La Favola Di Orfeo; The Vespers of 1610; Il Combattimento; Di Tancredi E Clorinda; Madrigals of War and Love; Gloria a 7; L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
Written and directed by Christopher Burstall.