Nuove Musiche – Furio Zanasi

In Le Nuove Musiche, Furio Zanasi’s richly expressive voice and Xavier Díaz-Latorre’s masterful theorbo playing bring new depth to the groundbreaking music of Giulio Caccini and Heinrich Kapsberger. Caccini’s radical aesthetic—placing the intelligibility of the text at the center, allowing melody to carry expressive meaning, and reducing the accompaniment to a discreet yet powerful basso continuo—emerges here with remarkable clarity.

Zanasi and Díaz-Latorre reveal how innovative Caccini’s nobile sprezzatura di canto truly was: a free, speech-like, rhetorically shaped way of singing in which the emotional power of the text directly guides the musical gesture. In their hands, poetry and melody intertwine as a single expressive line, exactly as Caccini and the Florentine Camerata envisioned.

Each track draws the listener into a vivid sonic world where the timeless beauty and bold innovation of the early Baroque come alive, offering a fresh and deeply felt perspective on a pivotal moment in music history—an compelling listening experience for all lovers of early music.