The cover of this album implies that the music within has something directly to do with Leonardo da Vinci or the story of the Da Vinci Code book and film, which it does not. But the success of the whole Da Vinci Code phenomenon provides a reasonable excuse for a disc that introduces a bit of the music da Vinci would have heard and known. Most ...
The unusual name of Valentin Bakfark may strike some English speakers whimsically as sounding like a cross between a sound made by an auto in need of a tune up and another thing that -- well -- defies polite discussion. Nevertheless, Bakfark was a Transylvanian composer who was a giant among lutenists in the sixteenth century; his fame spread from ...
On this Hyperion disc, all-European singing group Cinquecento takes on one of the great forgotten figures of the renaissance -- and there are many, though none so unjustly as he -- Philippe de Monte. Composer of more than 1,200 madrigals, Monte didn't make much of a showing in sacred music until he joined the court of Maximilian II in 1567, where ...
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