History often seems to progress in fits and starts, through sudden leaps forward.
Certain events stand out as milestones or signs that change the order of things and of the world.
Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, one of the major works in the history of Western music, is such a milestone, as indeed is his Orfeo.
The Vespers was, in Olivier Rouvière’s words, ‘one of the crucial moments in a man’s life, which became a crucial moment for humankind’. |
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