Monteverdi Vespers, Solomon’s Knot
WIGMORE HALL, LONDON
CLASSICAL MUSIC was in the headlines this summer, and not for good reasons. Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder-conductor of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, was terminated by his own ensemble after “punching and slapping” a soloist. As factions formed around the incident, and the conductor’s subsequent decision to establish a new rival group, questions emerged around early music’s many autocracies. Is this, they asked, “the price we pay” for genius?
