Monteverdi's Vespers L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar

Monteverdi’s Vespers at Barbican Hall – L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar

Perhaps surprisingly, to those who know Christina Pluhar’s interpretations of Baroque and Renaissance music as well as traditional Mediterranean and Latin American folk repertoire, her performance of Monteverdi’s great choral compilation with L’Arpeggiata was generally contemplative and subdued. Certainly the deadening acoustic of the Barbican Hall did no favours for this liturgical music which really needs …

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