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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
The Sixteen
Date
Tue 24 Oct 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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  • The Sixteen

    Programme

    • Claudio Monteverdi
      1567-1643
        • Beatus vir (Primo)
        • O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?
        • Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Primo)
        • Salve Regina (Terzo)
        • Gloria in excelsis Deo a 7
          :
        • Gloria a 7

    Interval

    • Claudio Monteverdi
      1567-1643
        • Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Terzo)
        • Salve Regina (Secondo)
        • Laudate pueri Dominum (Primo)
          :
        • Laudate pueri (Primo)
        • Chi vol che m'innamori
        • Dixit Dominus (Secondo)
          :
        • Dixit Dominus (Secondo) a 8

    Encore

    Overview

    To celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, TheSixteen and Harry Christophers continue their exploration ofthe composer’s Selva morale e spirituale, his vast anthology ofsacred works published in Venice between 1640 and 1641.

    Theprogramme opens with a dramatic setting of Psalm 112, Beatus vir,and includes the joyful double-choir polyphony of Dixit Dominusand the majestic Gloria for seven voices.

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