“If we asked you to name three important composers, you would probably come up with the three B’s of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
While there’s some justification in that choice, the most profound revolution in the history of music was initiated by Claudio Monteverdi. Around 1600, Monteverdi liberated musical emotions from their polyphonic prison, and gave them to the solo voice, which could do them proper justice.
Without Monteverdi, there wouldn’t have been any of the three B’s; neither would there have been The Beatles or the Sex Pistols. Anima Eterna Brugge’s conductor Jos van Immerseel values Monteverdi over all his fellow composers and is eagerly anticipating the Monteverdi project in November.” …
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