Lights which keep us from darkness – CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI – Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610
Claudio Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) could well lay claim to be the composer’s equivalent “signature work” to that of Georg Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Of course the latter’s popularity has…