Performer: Tenet Ensemble

The four-year old Green Mountain Project have made somewhat of a specialty of Monteverdi's Vespers, and their recent performance at New York city’s Church of St Jean Baptiste proved again that they are worthy of their chosen name.

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.

To accompany the exhibition “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” the early music ensemble TENET held court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a lovely concert of musical portraits from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.