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== Redirect? ==

Shouldn't there be a redirect to this page from "1610 Vespers" or something comparable? --[[User:Wspencer11|Wspencer11]] [[User talk:Wspencer11|(talk to me...)]] 15:18, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, there should be. There also probably doesn't need to be the "Monteverdi" at the end of the name, unless someone else wrote a Vespro della Beata Vergine in 1610. [[User:Makemi|Mak]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:Makemi|(talk)]]</font> 16:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

== Question ==

This seems to want a citation:

:''In scale, Monteverdi's Vespers was the most ambitious work of religious music before Bach. This 90-minute piece includes soloists, chorus, and orchestra and is comprised of both liturgical and extra-liturgical elements.''

It is a very ambitious work, but I've heard other ambitious works as well from a little later. I'm thinking of [[Missa Salizburgensis]] in particular. Maybe some qualification is in order?

--[[User:Vlmastra|♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦]] ([[User talk:Vlmastra|talk]]) 03:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

==List of recordings: overkill?==

This article contains an unusually long and thorough list of recordings. As tastes and technology change, and CD's go in and out of availability, this will rapidly become outdated. I would suggest eliminating this, or maybe replacing it with a brief section listing one or two prominent recordings and quotations from critical reviews. [[User:Grommel|Grommel]] ([[User talk:Grommel|talk]]) 15:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I've added the 1974 John Eliot Gardiner recording mainly for historical interest. It may the first recording. It may mark the introduction of the work into the performing repertoire. Perhaps we should remove the lists of soloists for brevity. [[User:Verbcatcher|Verbcatcher]] ([[User talk:Verbcatcher|talk]]) 03:43, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

== Map of performances in 2010 ==

I put the map back, because it is remarkable that the MV were performed so many times in 2010, 400 years after publication (anniversary year). For example, in 2009, I found only 8 performances with online references. If I recall correctly, online searches found over 175 performances in 2010. This bit of excitement is nice to document, and the online map is an interesting way to show it. Perhaps the email address associated with the map could be edited away now, if folks find it problematic. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.237.152.32|24.237.152.32]] ([[User talk:24.237.152.32|talk]]) 20:31, 24 January 2012 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

==Performance history==

When was the first modern performance? Could someone write a section on performance history?

The sleeve notes with the John Eliot Gardiner 1975 recording say "''On 5th March 1964 a performance took place in the famous chapel of King's College Cambridge [conducted by JEG][...] the first occasion that the 'Vespers' had been performed in their entirety since the death of [[Walter Goehr]]''". Goehr died in 1960.

I think the Vespers became increasingly popular from the mid seventies. I know of three performances by different groups in 1973/4 (I sang in one). The increasing popularity was probably driven by the availability of a modern performing edition. Did JEG edit an edition?

[[User:Verbcatcher|Verbcatcher]] ([[User talk:Verbcatcher|talk]]) 05:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)