Happy Birthday, Monteverdi

Strozzi, Claudio Monteverdi, 1630

Last week I overlooked celebrating the birth of Claudio Monteverdi who was born May 9, 1567.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, and The London Oratory Juniors Choir in performing the maestro's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin ...