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Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of 1610

Monteverdi’s famous Vespers was first printed in Venice in 1610 when the composer was working at the ducal court in Mantua. The work is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large and skilful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece. It is being performed for the first time in the Temple Church, 400 years after it was first published.


The Sixteen is an internationally acclaimed choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers in 1979. The group's special reputation is for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of twentieth-century music, and is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder, Harry Christophers.