Vespro della Beata Virgine

Album by Claudio Monteverdi & Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne & Schola des Petits Chanteurs de Sion & English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra & Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne & Les Sacqueboutiers

Vespro della Beata Vergine is a collection of sacred Vespers music by Claudio Monteverdi, first published in 1610. The work bridges Renaissance polyphony and the emerging Baroque concertato style, combining choral writing, solo vocal passages and instrumental accompaniment to create contrasting textures and expressive rhetoric, marking a significant point in Monteverdi's career and in the development of early Baroque sacred music.