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Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras
Monteverdi and his constellation
John Eliot Gardiner, Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, presents eight podcasts that explore Monteverdi’s role at the centre of seismic shifts and tumultuous advances in all the arts and sciences during the early 1600s, spearheaded by his contemporaries - Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Shakespeare, Caravaggio and Rubens.
With the help of specially recorded musical illustrations and a handpicked team of experts, Gardiner guides listeners through an in-depth investigation into the development of the early-modern mind.
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4.8 stars from 53 ratings
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“Well researched and entertaining.”
Derrick "The Fiddler" Clark via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/04/23
Inspiring!
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“A hearing delight for listeners who like to cross borders, think beyond disciplines and categories of arts, music, science and literature - absolutely inspiring and mind-blowing.”
vanni-ffm via Apple Podcasts ·
Germany ·
08/23/20
A constellation of knowledge
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“A perfect exploration of a musical period about which I am very ignorant. JEG’s delivery is engaging, informative and utterly enjoyable”
Guenettesd via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/16/20
Recent Episodes
Monteverdi’s swan-song, L’Incoronazione di Poppea (1643), is a high-water mark of the new genre of public opera, Shakespearean in its contrasts of high and low-life characters, political chicanery and outrageous theatricality. It coincides with the death of the last two in this constellation of...
Published 09/25/20
The focus is now on the growing awareness of the physical, mental, and psychological attributes of the individual, and the development of a new philosophy which leads ultimately to Descartes’ formulation: cogito ergo sum. The first public opera house opens in Venice in 1637. Monteverdi, now...
Published 09/18/20
Visual art – and especially the work of Caravaggio and Rubens (in different but complementary ways) now aimed to intensify sensory experience and drama. What Monteverdi called the “natural path to imitation” was a radical bid to represent, magnify and even ‘improve’ upon nature through song and...
Published 09/11/20
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