This fifth video is a conversation between Paul Agnew, Associate Musical Director and Associate Conductor of Les Arts Florissants, and Pascal Duc, the Ensemble’s musical adviser, and was filmed at the Department of Early Music at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. They discuss how modern editions of a score are established from old sources and what effect that can have on the interpretation of works.

Monteverdi’s madrigals: from the sources to a modern score

Discover the first four bonus videos:

1 - Monteverdi: a life in music
> A general introduction to Monteverdi’s eight books of madrigals 

2 - Introduction to the Fourth Book 
3 - Introduction to the Fifth Book
4 - Introduction to the Sixth Book
> Three videos each offering an analysis of an emblematic madrigal, with a simultaneous reading of the score against the filmed concert