7.30pm, Saturday 2 October 2010 / Sheldonian Theatre

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

The Vespers of 1610 is a monumental work in the history of Western music. Monteverdi’s spectacular writing for choir and orchestra, with colourful use of sackbutts, cornetts, theorbo and soloists is as spell-binding today as for the work’s first audiences. It will no doubt have many anniversary performances, but Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s return to the work with which the Monteverdi Choir’s unparalleled career began, is surely the one to catch. Music at Oxford is privileged to join forces with Wadham College, who celebrating its 400th anniversary, to bring one of the most enduringly magnificent works of the seventeenth century to Oxford.

Tickets £40 £26 £18 £10

Ends 10pm

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