Francisco Guerrero – Alma sevillana
Born in Renaissance Seville, Francisco Guerrero is today regarded as one of the most important composers of the 16th century. His refined counterpoint and his …
Concert-biography
La Bourrasque – Around Sainte-Colombe
Very few details of the life of Jean de Sainte-Colombe are known to us. Yet he is one of the finest viol players of all …
Orfeo – Il canoro semideo
Orpheus, a demigod more powerful than the gods themselves. When he sings to the sound of his lyre, the fiercest beasts grow gentle, the stones …
Diego Ortiz – Caleidoscopio
A fresh look at the partly little-known work of a great Spanish Renaissance master who went to seek his fortune in Naples. Recording programme around …
Francisca Apumayta – Forgotten Composer of the Colonial Andes
Indigenous, noble, composer and nun… the music of Francisca Apumayta remained locked away for centuries in the silence of the cloister. A mystery concealed at …
Las Tres Marías
In the Hispano-American imagination, the three Marys are the stars forming the belt of the constellation of Orion, the celestial hunter, three saints gathered at …
Pomponio Nenna di Bari – Cavallier di Cesare
Recording programme: the complete First Book of Madrigals for Five Voices by Pomponio Nenna (1556 – 1608). Pomponio Nenna was born in Bari in 1556. …
Hic Zeno – Marguerite Yourcenar
Based on Marguerite Yourcenar’s L’Œuvre au Noir (published in English as The Abyss): “Voyez, continua Zénon. Par-delà ce village, d’autres villages, par-delà cette abbaye, d’autres …