Cristobal De Morales (1500-1553), Luis de Milan (1500-1561), Marco Betta (1964), Costanzo Festa (1485-1545), Diego Ortiz (1510-1576), Antonio Valente (1520-1601), Giovanni Sollima (1962)-Igiul, Agostino Agazzari (1578-1640), Pietro Paolo Borrono da Milano (1490-1563), Cipriano de Rore (1515-1565), Orazio Bassani (1550-1615), Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566), Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580), Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570-1622), Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

The singular record production “Ex tempore” is proposed to us by the instrumental ensemble “The Italian Consort”, with the collaboration of Andrea Inghisciano, an exceptional guest and international star of the Renaissance cornetto. The ancestral sounds of the consort of dulciane, accompanied by the lute of Gian Giacomo Pinardi and the organ of Cinzia Guarino, guide us to listen to a repertoire of both early music – represented by composers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – and contemporary, thanks to the compositional contribution of Marco Betta and Giovanni Sollima. The particular timbres of the ancient instruments are the expressive key to intricate labyrinths of contrapuntal alchemies, intense relationships with sacred or poetic texts and implied invitations to dance, in a continuous search for imitation of the human voice that in the Renaissance was considered as the absolute reference for any musical instrument.