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Performance on 3: Lufthansa Festival 2010: Episode 1: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

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Episode 1: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

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Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

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Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana in Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.

In a performance given at St John's, Smith Square in London as part of the 2010 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana in Monteverdi's Vespers.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610: Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana, from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.

This year Monteverdi's Vespers celebrates its 400th anniversary. An iconic masterwork of the early Baroque, this collection of exquisitely written psalms and other sacred pieces is a showcase for the very best vocal-music techniques of its day, placing sumptuous plainchant-based polyphony alongside solo motets demonstrating the latest styles of sensual vocal melody. After bringing a brilliant Orfeo to the Lufthansa Festival in 2007, the multi-award-winning Italian vocal-and-instrumental ensemble La Venexiana returns under its director Claudio Cavina to open this year's Festival.

Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music.

Royal Academy Soloists 
Clio Gould director
Gordon Jacob Overture 
(CD The Musical Landscape Royal Academy of Music Series Cantoris CRCD 6063)

Live performance 
Aisha Orazbayeva violin
Xenakis Mikka 

Royal Academy Soloists 
Clio Gould director
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op.10 (part)
(CD The Musical Landscape Royal Academy of Music Series Cantoris CRCD 6063).

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Music performed at St John's, Smith Square for 2010's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.

Performances given at St John's, Smith Square in London as part of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2010. Featuring works by Monteverdi and Handel

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