Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610
performed by
Nicholas Mulroy, Thomas Hobbs, tenors
Choir of New College Oxford
Charivari Agreable
(on period instruments)
Edward Higginbottom, dir.
Edition: novum / New College Oxford 2010
Recording: St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, 7/2009
TT: 90'30''
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"Edward Higginbottom draws wonderfully elegant and naturally expressive
singing from his choir at New College, Oxford. This is the New College
sound, and it serves the music very well indeed. The instrumental
playing from the Oxford-based Charivari Agréable is, frankly, gorgeous
... It seems astonishing that this brand new release – the first on the
New College label – comes at mid price. And time and again I find myself
coming back to this recording for its natural, unforced elegance and
its finely controlled instrumental playing." -Simon Heighes, BBC Building a Library, Dec 2010
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