C 9648 FRANCESCO DA MILANO: IL LIBRO DELLA FORTUNA (1536) [9,99 Euros]
The collaboration between Cantus with the extraordinary lute, vihuela and guitar player Xavier DÃaz-Latorre goes a step further. We are pleased to announce to his thousands of fans around the […]
The collaboration between Cantus with the extraordinary lute, vihuela and guitar player Xavier DÃaz-Latorre goes a step further. We are pleased to announce to his thousands of fans around the world the release of his recording devoted to Francesco da Milano ‘Il Divino’. Xavier wanted to focus on one of the less frequented publications of the brilliant Francesco, ‘Il Libro della Fortuna’, published in Naples in 1536. To this end, in October 2019 we met, together with the sound engineer Gonzalo Noqué, in the beautiful parish church of Soto del Real (Madrid), venue of the International Festival of Early Music of that town, and of which Xavier DÃaz-Latorre is a frequent guest artist. There, with the three wonderful instruments used in this recording, all of them strung in gut (viola da mano tenor by Carlos González, viola da mano bass by Patrick Hoopmans and renaissance lute by Grant Tomlinson), our wonderful artist revealed aspects of the music of Francesco da Milano that we had never heard (nor felt) before.
