In Le Nuove Musiche, Furio Zanasi’s richly expressive voice and Xavier Díaz-Latorre’s masterful theorbo playing bring new depth to the groundbreaking music of Giulio Caccini and Heinrich Kapsberger. Caccini’s radical aesthetic – placing the intelligibility of the text at the centre, allowing melody to carry expressive meaning, and reducing the accompaniment to a discreet yet powerful basso continuo – emerges here with remarkable clarity.

Zanasi and Díaz-Latorre reveal 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 gesture. In their hands, poetry and melody intertwine as a single expressive line, exactly as Caccini and the Florentine Camerata envisioned.

Each track draws the listener into a vivid sonic world where the timeless beauty and bold innovation of the early Baroque come alive, offering a fresh and deeply felt perspective on a pivotal moment in music history – a compelling listening experience for all lovers of early music.