Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon jane GLOVER reviews three recent books:
Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High
Renaissance by Denis Arnold , The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi , translated and introduced by Denis Stevens , and Music and Patronage in 16th-century Mantua, by Iain Fenlon. Settings of John Donne
MARY BEVERLEY (soprano) and NIGEL NORTH (lute) perform settings of Donne's poems by 17th-century composers: William Corkine ,
Ferrabosco, Dowland, Coprario. John Hilton, John Wilson , Henry Lawes and Humfrey VHF only