Monteverdi Concert 6 October

The Jubilate Singers will join Wellington’s Baroque Voices and Burnside High School’s Bel Canto and Aurora Voices choirs in one of the best-loved compositions of the choral repertoire and Monteverdi’s largest work, his Vespro della Beata Vergine. Part of a larger 1610 Venice publication, the Vespers comprises large psalm settings, smaller-scale motets, a lavishly scored sacred concerto, and a setting of the Magnificat. The Vespers is courtly and majestic in places, touchingly intimate in others. A pinnacle of Renaissance music, it contains elements that look forward to the Baroque style to come, and spectacular vocal and instrumental effects that are still capable of thrilling audiences four centuries later.
The concert is on Saturday 6 October 2012 at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Manchester St, Christchurch at 7.30 pm and will be directed by Grant Hutchinson. Tickets are $25/$20 (concession) and school students are admitted free of charge.