… The vocal soloists, mostly drawn from the choir, were also fine.
To succeed, any performance of this work needs two excellent tenors and two excellent sopranos. The tenors here, Oliver Mercer and Steven Caldicott Wilson, not only gave strong accounts of individual lines and matched each other uncannily in echo effects, they also lent a firm center to the choral sound where power was needed.
From The New York Times, March 22, 2010, reviewing the St. Thomas Church NYC performance of Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine.
For the full review, please scroll down to the paragraph that begins “Monteverdi 1610 Vespers” here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/arts/music/22class.html?ref=music)
