Leonarda/ Crowe/ Gandilya - Solo & Duo Motets Release:Solo & Duo Motets Toccata the intensity of the singing

the intensity of the singing becomes so dramatic as to go beyond the boundaries of tonal language

in the duo's hometown of Winnipeg

leader of the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate

The album is good

Leonarda/ Crowe/ Gandilya - Solo & Duo Motets Release:Solo & Duo Motets Toccata the intensity of the singingIsabella Leonarda (1620 1704) was a remarkable woman. At a time when female composers were a rarity, she was both prominent and prolific. Although she was cloistered (literally: she was a nun) in Novara in northern Italy, the dedications of her published compositions show her to have been extremely well connected. And her music demonstrates that she was well aware of the music of contemporaries like Carissimi or Corelli. These facts would be of merely