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Reviews

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Great Venetians, Royal Albert Hall, London (28 Jul 2006)

Choir, soloists and sagbutts send the spirit soaring

Fine though the Bambergers' concert was, it was put in the shade by the previous Prom. This was given by the combined forces of the Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists and His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornets (a combination of Baroque trombones and those glorious soft-toned wooden curved trumpets), directed by John Eliot Gardiner.

They played resplendent Baroque sacred music composed for St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Here the numerous raised galleries gave rise to a fascinating 'spatial' music, in which a cornet melody played from behind might be answered by two violins to the left, and then a quartet of trombones and 10 voices to the right.

The Albert Hall doesn't have the gloomy mystery of St Marks, but its arena and platform and raised choir stalls did allow Sir John to dispose his forces in a myriad different arrangements. The simplest of them was just one choir at the back - this was used for Monteverdi's Mass in four voices, whose movements were threaded through the concert.

It could have seemed austere in comparison to the polychoral pieces, but so alive and alert was the choral sound that it was no less musically enthralling. The big pieces gave us something else; a sensuous flood of voices, lutes and brass issuing from all sides, which sated the ear and sent the spirit soaring.

Ivan Hewett

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