Ensemble Gombert and Accademia Arcadia during the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers at the 2010 Festival. Photo Bruce Hedge.
ENSEMBLE GOMBERT and ACCADEMIA ARCADIA
Directed by John O'Donnell
Proudly sponsored by Italian Institute of Culture and S.R. Stoneman Foundation
This seminal work of the early Baroque is celebrating its 400th birthday. With its scoring for voices, strings, brass (cornetts & sackbutts) and continuo (organ, two harpsichords and two theorbos in this performance) and its variety of textures from solo voice to ten-part double choir, it brings the aural splendour of Venice to Woodend.
