I Fagiolini, the vocal ensemble performing on this album, is known for innovative productions, including staging Handel with masks and Purcell with puppets.
Compositional Technique
Clément Janequin's chanson La guerre (The War) famously includes written vocal sound effects of cannons, whizzing arrows, gunshots, and screams.
Compositional Technique
Josquin Desprez's Agnus Dei from Missa L'Homme Armé sexti toni features two interwoven vocal duos, or canons, over a slow-moving scaffold of the 'armed man' tune sung forwards and backwards simultaneously.
Album & Artwork
This album was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's perpetual curiosity, aiming to present music that resonates with the state of mind that led to his inventions.
Recording & Production
Adrian Williams's 'Shaping the invisible' was commissioned specifically for this recording and funded by the I Fagiolini Charitable Trust.
Composer Biography
Leonardo da Vinci was regarded as a fine musician, accompanying his improvised poetry on the lira da braccio, a stringed instrument.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath, revered music as the only serious rival to his 'science' of painting, believing both were founded on mathematical laws.
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