Pre-Order: I Fagiolini * Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers [New CD] insert with essay [w/ download card] Anderson has spent decades mining

Anderson has spent decades mining the veins of the complicated

and the soprano prayer 'Casta diva' in Act 1 is a world famous aria

to instrumental synth experiments and driving drum machines

Camper Van Beethoven's second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band's debut LP morphing into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band's most defining songs

Pre-Order: I Fagiolini * Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers [New CD] insert with essay [w/ download card] Anderson has spent decades miningMonteverdi's 1610 Vespers is the landmark work of early Baroque music. It sits at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the new dramatic style heard in his first opera, L'Orfeo. 'The Vespers' redefined what sacred music could sound like emotionally immediate, virtuosic, both looking back to the past and driving forward into the future. Monteverdi specialists I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth have waited until their 40th birthday to record the