direct from Westminster Cathedral London
Monteverdi
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano) FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR director of music
RUSSELL BURGESS
MALCOLM HICKS
(chamber organ continuo) NICHOLAS KRAEMER
(harpsichord continuo)
DAVID MUNROW RECORDER CONSORT
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SVI.VIA CLEAVER conducted by John Eliot Gardiner followed by an interlude