IGIAnd L'Arpeggiata have a new recording of the Vespers out this month, too.
It's on Spotify, and there's also an Youtube extract here.
doversoul, all I know is that for Monterverdi the text was paramount, and the music must serve it. This is what brought him into conflict with established theory espoused by Artusi, and the polyphonic style in which the words were often hard to make out.
Hopefully others will make a more learned contribution than mine!
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