Vespro Della Beata VergineThe first masterpiece of sacred music is undoubtedly the mythical Vespers of Monteverdi, first published in Venice in 1610. Quintessential of the great Italian polychoral style of writing, with it's choirs, initially distributed throughout the entire volume of the Basilica San Marco for spectacular effects, the Vespers are here raised to the heavenly spheres by Raphael Pichon: every aspect of the Royal Chapel of Versailles (1710) is being put to use

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with soloist and orchestra becoming equal partners in a texture that is interwoven on many levels

famous for the pianistic difficulties posed by it's polyphonic convolutions and hand-crossings

Their repertoire

as so often during that time in history

Like the waves of the sea in her homeland of Brittany

He carried on rocking on the reactivated Sun label in the 1970s

such as Hermann Hesse and Richard Dehmel

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Joining him on this recording are two other jazz titans: Lewis Nash and Hassan Shakur

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