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In the Selva morale e spirituale* Monteverdi left us his artistic testament. The maestro di cappella of St Mark\’s, who had taken holy orders some ten years earlier, gathered together in this work thirty years of compositional activity in which piety, erudition and genius meet, in which music transcends the categories of \’sacred\’ and \’secular\’, becoming morale e spirituale. . . Like a maestro di cappella preparing the liturgy for Vespers, Françoise Lasserre has drawn from this heterogeneous \’selva\’ the material for three almost complete vesper cycles, leaving aside those pieces that have no precise liturgical function (such as the five madrigali spirituali and the Pianto della Madonna). Thus she has reconstructed a festive office in the \’Vespers of Holy Martyrs\’ (using the Magnificat a 6 of 1610), a solemn office in the \’Solemn Vespers of St John the Baptist\’ (completed by the Dixit Dominus from the posthumous publication of 1650), and a more meditative office in the older style \’alla Palestrina\’ in the \’Vespers of a Confessor\’, to which she has added a Laudate pueri by Monteverdi\’s successor at St Mark\’s basilica, Giovanni Rovetta. Akadêmia pursues its impassioned exploration of the music of the seventeenth century, following earlier recordings of works by Cavalli, Monteverdi, and Schütz.