Monteverdi/ Col - Monteverdi in San Marco AEC Video the ensemble's second album

the ensemble's second album

and intensified on subsequent journeys through North and East Africa (1969-75)

which is characterized by a deep emotionality and even bizarre surprises

Benoît Poelvoorde

Monteverdi/ Col - Monteverdi in San Marco AEC Video the ensemble's second albumFollowing their album largely devoted to sacred polyphonic works composed for the basilica of Santa Barbara during the period in which Claudio Monteverdi worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua, Odhecaton now presents sacred compositions from the composer's later years, written for St Mark's basilica where he became maestro di cappella in 1613. This new recording presents both sides of Monteverdi's sacred style: the stile antico or strict contrapuntal