COMPOSERS: Monteverdi
LABELS: Teldec Das Alte Werk
WORKS: Vespro della Beata Vergine
PERFORMER: Marshall, Palmer, Langridge, Equiluz, Hampson, Korn; Tölzer Knabenchor; Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Concentus musicus Wien/Harnoncourt
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 69464-8 (1968)
This live recording from Graz Cathedral is gloriously bombastic but mushy at times, despite sprightly original instruments and sensitive plainsongs. Anthony Pryer