Known & Unknown Canzonas / Various - Known & Unknown Canzonas [CD]

'Filatura di Musica' is an ensemble specializing in historically informed performance. It consists of musicians who graduated from prestigious art schools: Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen or Conservatoire de Musique in Grenoble. Artistic pursuits of the ensemble cover two areas of repertoire. The first is Renaissance and early Baroque music, performed in the typical of this period high pitch (a1= 465 Hz). The core instrumental ensemble is a consort, the varied body of which (recorders and traverso flutes, vielle/violin, violas da gamba) contributes to expressive demonstration of arabesque melodic lines of the 16th-century polyphony and concertante dialoguing in canzonas and sonatas from early 17th century. This is complemented with singing and the sound of keyboard instruments (virginal/positive organ).