Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 – Knox United Church

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Spiritus Chamber Choir, Calgary’s award-winning chamber choir, along with Early Music Voices Concert Series, is delighted to present Monteverdi’s outstanding Vespers of 1610. Come hear the original “surround sound” music that reverberated around San Marco Basilica in Venice 400 years ago!

Grand in scale, Monteverdi’s masterpiece was the most ambitious and groundbreaking work of sacred music before the great passions of J.S. Bach. The music incorporates soloists and chorus with virtuosic instrumental writing. This is the first time this work is being mounted in Calgary with period instruments: cornetts, sackbuts, curtal, recorders, violone and theorbo – to name a few!