Deus in Adjutorium

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From Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Originally written for orchestra and a large choir, this powerful work was to be performed in a large church in Venice, perhaps even Saint Mark's Cathedral. One Monteverdi scholar believes that this was written as a kind of "job interview" for a position as a composer in Venice. It has been arranged here for two antiphonal brass quintets.

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