Apollo’s Fire & Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610

Jeannette Sorrell, founder and director of Apollo’s Fire, describes Monteverdi‘s 1610 Vespers as “daringly avant-garde: music that uses the tools of the Renaissance and stretches them to convey the flamboyant, emotional imagery of the early Baroque.” On this edition of Baroque&Before, Jeannette Sorrell provides engaging commentary to the milieu and music of Monteverdi and the Vespers, leading Apollo’s Fire, Apollo’s Singers, and soloists in this revolutionary and thrilling musical integration of biblical and liturgical texts with Gregorian chant psalm tones and Renaissance counterpoint.

Tonight’s program draws from performances held in Trinity Cathedral Cleveland in November 2014, and will be available as a stream for 30 days following tonight’s broadccast. A blue “Listen button will appear when the stream is accessible.

Apollo’s Fire returns to Chicago with a live performance of the Monteverdi Vespers in the opening concert of its Windy City Series on Sunday, October 16, 4:00pm in Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University in Evanston. For more information about Apollo’s Fire and the Windy City Series, please visit apollosfire.org/2022-2023-windy-city-series/