Vespro Della Beata Vergine - Claudio Monteverdi - ( 1 )

do you really mean that?
this was a television- or videoproduction, so it's not the exact acoustics of the church, but hello, this is exactly the place, for which these psalms have been written!
What you're saying is, that monteverdi wrote music for a place, that it shouldn't be performed in? do you think he was a moron? i guess, one shouldn't perform bachcantatas in leipzig's thomaskirche too? if the acoustic is too big, it's a problem with the performance and the tempo, not with the location!

Look, I don't want to quarrel here. If I hadn't meant that, I wouldn't have written my comment. I'm not discussing what premises composers composed their compositions for. In that case, e.g. Gesualdo's madrigals would have to be sung only in prison cells.
All I'm asking is, why did a contemporary group of artists record a fairly swift and jolly piece in a slow acoustics. That's all.

As for performance and tempo - you are right. You can adjust performance and tempo to the acoustics, but then you're risking the piece becoming too long and boring. Listen e.g. to Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. Beautiful piece, church acoustics, slow, rather choral performance. It's lovely, but you'll get bored after a while. Or listen to some performances of Mozart's Requiem. You'll fall asleep! Music can't be sterile. But you won't get a spicy music in every acoustics.

you're a bit of a philisitine aren't you ;-/