from Windsor presented by BBC Radio 3 at St George's Chapel on 29 Sept as part of this year's Festival
Monteverdi's ' Other ' Vespers A reconstruction of an imaginary Vespers service for the feast of St John the Baptist, the music drawn in the main from the two printed anthologies 11640 and 1650) of Monteverdi s Venetian church music
NORMA BURROWES (soprano) ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
JOHN ANGELO MESSANA (altO) CHARLES BRETT (alto)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) JOHN EI. WES (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (baSS) TERRY EDWARDS (baSS) JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello continuo)
ROBERT SPENCER (chitarrone) NICHOLAS KRAEMER
(harpsichord continuo)
MAI.COLM HICKS (organ continuo) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Part 1
11.0* Tom Coryat 's Crudities
In 1608 this tireless eccentric English traveller heard ' the best music in all my life ' at Vespers in the Scuola San Rocco on the feast-day of its patron saint. PETER BARKER reads some other impressions of Venice in Monteverdi's day from Coryat's ' Crudities ' of 1611. 11.20* Concert: part 2