Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610).
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Performance by Taverner Consort, Choir & Players; Soloists: Emma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas; Andrew Parrott conducting.
Performance by soprano: Margaret Marshall; mezzo-soprano: Felicity Palmer; tenors: Kurt Equiluz, Philip Langridge; baritone: Thomas Hampson; bass: Arthur Korn; Concentus Musicus Wien; Tölzer Knabenchor (director: Arnold Schönberg); Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.
Performance in the Basilica di San Marco, Venice, by sopranos: Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennicchi; countertenor: Michael Chance; tenors: Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia; basses: Bryn Terfel, Alastair Miles; the Monterverdi Choir; the London Oratory Junior Choir; His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts; the English Baroque Soloists; Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting.
Performance at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, September 10, 2010 by the Monteverdi Choir; the English Baroque Soloists; the London Oratory Junior Choir & the Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts; Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting.