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Later, that arioso’s darkness returns — a reminder, even a relapse — but is fought off by majestic chords.

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Monteverdi’s writing in the “Vespers” is organized around a dazzling array of what, for him, were old and new forms: hymn, Gregorian chant, polyphony, operatic monody, arioso and embellished virtuoso singing.

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His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.

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But Monteverdi shows uncanny skill at writing extended vocal passages that shift seamlessly between recitative, arioso and aria.

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On the surface the narrator’s confessional, acutely detailed monologue hovers between long stretches of intense recitative and passages of lyrically enhanced arioso, sometimes poignant, sometimes chillingly detached.

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