Monteverdi’s Vespers - InAlto

InAlto had a Renaissance organ built to play the ‘Vespers of the Blessed Virgin’ as Monteverdi himself heard them. Spoiler: this works! What do you do to get the balance of Monteverdi's ‘Vespro della Beata Vergine’ exactly right? Back to the source, thought InAlto, and it had an exact copy built of a Renaissance organ as the mogul of the San Marco himself knew it. Thanks to the transparent sound, everything fell into place! Forget bombastic performances with choirs of forty men. InAlto starts from what is on the title page: ‘suitable for chapels or the room of a prince’. From falsobordone to vocal acrobatics, from recitative to polyphony: voilà the masterpiece that single-handedly closed the gap between Renaissance and Baroque.