Travel back in time with B’Rock Orchestra & Vocal Consort and dis­cov­er the jour­neys of the ambi­tious Claudio Monteverdi. Not only did Monteverdi trav­el to Spa as part of Francesco Gonzaga’s entourage in 1599, he also used that expe­di­tion to gath­er inspi­ra­tion for his own musi­cal path from the Renaissance to the Baroque: inspired by the Franco-­Flemish mas­ters, this mas­ter and cus­to­di­an of the tra­di­tion­al stile anti­co broke with the strict rules of coun­ter­point. Monteverdi’s ground­break­ing madri­gals there­upon enriched Italian vocal music with homopho­ny, solo and choral singing and instru­men­tal ritornellos.

With music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-­1643), Giaches de Wert (1535­1596), Cipriano de Rore (ca. 1515­-1565) & Nicolas Gombert (1495­-ca.1560).