Willaert / Picchi / Palestrina / Kapsberg: Discorsi Delle Comete

   in Early Music Today (Dec, 2016)
Music in Italian-speaking lands underwent change in leaps and bounds around the turn of the 17th century – turn to page 28 to read about Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s current project with the operas of one of the age’s greatest composers, Claudio Monteverdi – with particular developments in the field of instrumental writing, which until that point had played a distinct second fiddle to vocal music.

This debut recording from Ensemble Daimonion – Andrea Inghisciano (cornett), Anaïs Chen (violin), Soma Salat-Zakariás (viola da gamba), Daniel Rosin (cello), Josep María Martí Duran (theorbo), Maria Gonzàlez (harpsichord) – winners of the 2011 Premio Bonporti, features music that spans a century of instrumental music, …