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Claudio Monteverdi

  • Monteverdi's <em>Poppea</em>.
    Monteverdi's Pioneering 'Vespers'
    Ted Libbey
    Monteverdi stood on the divide between two great musical periods, the Renaissance and the Baroque. His Vespers illustrates a mastery at blending the new with the old in a way that's coherent, expressive and moving, especially in John Eliot Gardiner's atmospheric recording made in Venice.