Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

A truly celebratory way to open our 2026 Festival as we share I Fagiolini’s intimate yet powerful one-to-a-part performance of Monteverdi’s defining masterwork of church music, accompanied by wind, strings and brass. Peerless technical control and dynamic improvisation produce a colourful and viscerally emotional reading – a fitting 21st-century interpretation as this popular British group approaches its own 40th anniversary.