The album title, "La Grazia Delle Donne," explores the musical creations of women throughout the Baroque period, often overlooked in historical narratives.
Composer Biography
Francesca Caccini, a composer and performer at the Medici court, was the highest-paid musician there and is considered to have composed the first opera entirely by a woman.
Performer Biography
Ensemble La Cigale's first album, "Tiorba Obbligata," featured the theorbo as a solo instrument and received a Prix Opus nomination in Québec.
Performer Biography
Ensemble La Cigale, formed in Montréal in 2006, specializes in Renaissance and Baroque music performed on period instruments.
Composer Biography
Barbara Strozzi, the illegitimate child of composer Giulio Strozzi, was the most widely published composer of her time, with eight books of her compositions in circulation.
Performer Biography
Myriam Leblanc, the soprano on this album, is a versatile artist recognized for her warm, supple voice and pure timbre, equally at home in Classical, Bel canto, and Baroque repertoire.
Composer Biography
Isabella Leonarda, an Ursuline nun, was the first woman to publish instrumental sonatas, with an opus of about two hundred compositions.
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