Adieu Florence la jolie

music at the time of Lorence the Magnificent

 

Music by Alexander Agricola, Joannes Martini, Guillaume Dufay, Heinrich Isaac, Antoine Busnois, Franciscus Bossinensis, Francesco Spinacino, Pietrequin, Anonimo

La Selva

 

Simone Sorini    tenor

Carolina Pace    recorder

Michele Carreca    lute

Gianni La Marca    viola da gamba

This repertoire was first played and dedicated to the Botticelli exhibition at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt in January 2010. The concert goes through the refined Flemish polyphony composers who worked and lived in Florence in the `400. In here Carnival songs, instrumental music and Frottole  for voice and lute are played;  the public will enjoy a variety of genre and sonorities,  at the same time coherence of language and style of the period.