Caccini / Kapsberger: New Music

In "Le Nuove Musiche," Furio Zanasi's expressive voice and Xavier Díaz-Latorre's masterful theorbo playing lend new depth to the groundbreaking music of Giulio Caccini and Heinrich Kapsberger. Caccini's radical aesthetic—focusing on the intelligibility of the text, imbuing melody with expressive meaning, and reducing the accompaniment to a discreet yet powerful basso continuo—emerges here with remarkable clarity. Zanasi and Díaz-Latorre demonstrate just how innovative Caccini’s "nobile sprezzatura di canto" truly was: a free, speech-like, rhetorically shaped way of singing in which the emotional power of the text directly guides the musical delivery. In their hands, poetry and melody merge into an artistic unity, just as Caccini and the Florentine Camerata had envisioned. Each track transports the listener into a vibrant sound world where the timeless beauty and bold innovation of the early Baroque come to life, offering a fresh and deeply felt perspective on a pivotal moment in music history—a captivating listening experience for all lovers of early music.