Abstract
Two important Monteverdi recording projects that have been under way for some time provide interesting points of comparison and contrast. One is of sacred music, one secular; one is by a British group, the other Italian. Both sets of CDs under review mine the two major retrospective publications organized by Monteverdi towards the end of his life: the Selva morale of 1640–41, which brought together 37 pieces written over the previous 30 years of his Venetian employment, and the eighth book of madrigals of 1638, which broke a 19-year publication hiatus after his seventh book of 1619. We are fortunate that Monteverdi undertook this task for posterity in his 70s, since the survival of manuscript music was much less secure. After his death the Venetian publisher Vincenti brought out some further sacred music in a posthumous edition of 1650; Monteverdi had also been contributing to various sacred anthologies from 1615 and this continued up to 1651.
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