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This CD was specially commissioned to complement the very successful Titian exhibition at the National Gallery.
The painter Titian worked all his life in Venice for everybody who mattered; his work was favored by the ducal families of Mantua, Urbino and Ferrara. He enjoyed the zealous patronage of Philip II of Spain and Emperor Charles V.
Titian’s portrait commissions linked him closely to the little-known world of Venetian secular music. The musical gatherings, hosted in salons and unofficial academies of noble patrons such as Ruberto Strozzi, Neri Capponi, Antonio Zantani and Ranuccio Farnese, offered a space for the leading composers of St Mark’s and other important Venetian centres to experiment outside the confines of the Church.
Performing at these gatherings were Sylvestro Ganassi, one of the first great viol virtuosi, and the keyboard player and composer Claudio Merulo. Debuted there, the striking music of composers such as Adriaan Willaert and his pupils Baldassare Donato, Girolamo Parabosco and Perissone Cambio is brought to a XXIst century audience by Concordia and their director Mark Levy.
The painter Titian worked all his life in Venice for everybody who mattered; his work was favored by the ducal families of Mantua, Urbino and Ferrara. He enjoyed the zealous patronage of Philip II of Spain and Emperor Charles V.
Titian’s portrait commissions linked him closely to the little-known world of Venetian secular music. The musical gatherings, hosted in salons and unofficial academies of noble patrons such as Ruberto Strozzi, Neri Capponi, Antonio Zantani and Ranuccio Farnese, offered a space for the leading composers of St Mark’s and other important Venetian centres to experiment outside the confines of the Church.
Performing at these gatherings were Sylvestro Ganassi, one of the first great viol virtuosi, and the keyboard player and composer Claudio Merulo. Debuted there, the striking music of composers such as Adriaan Willaert and his pupils Baldassare Donato, Girolamo Parabosco and Perissone Cambio is brought to a XXIst century audience by Concordia and their director Mark Levy.