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Our tenth season opens with two concerts in the exquisite 17th-century library of the House of the Redeemer. We look forward to seeing you at these paired events, which celebrate Francesco da Milano and Giulio Caccini, (called Il Romano), one composer at the apex of the Renaissance and another who ignited the baroque.

Members of the Lute Society of America, please enter code LSA for a $15 discount when purchasing tickets to either or both of our two opening concerts.

Monday, November 5th
8:00pm

The Library of the House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street

"North deserves his place among the finest living lutenists" – Gramophone, UK

A Decoration of Silence

The lute music of “il Divino” Francesco Canova da Milano (1497 – 1543)

In the late 15th century, the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote that music was “nothing but a decoration of silence”, and music could bring on a “divine frenzy”. The Italian lutenist Francesco da Milano, known as “il divino”, was said to have sent his audiences into a trance and rob them of all their senses, save one, that of hearing.

Set in the 17th-century library of the House of the Redeemer, this recital by one of the world's leading lutenists transports the 21st century listener into a historical world of sensual delight.

The library of the House of the Redeemer, built in Urbania, Italy in the 17th-century and brought to the United States during World War I

Friday, November 9th
8:00pm

The Library of the House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street

"One of the most interesting voices and the most serious artists prepared for this repertoire in the last generation." – L'Ape Musicale, Italy

Giulio Il Romano

A Concert for Caccini (1551 – 1618)

Riccardo Pisani, tenor

with Ensemble Ricercare Antico
Serena Bellini, recorders
Giovanni Bellini, archlute
Matteo Coticoni, violone
Francesco Tomasi, theorbo, baroque guitar, and artistic direction

Please join this ensemble of Roman and Florentine virtuosi for their New York debut in works of Caccini and his circle. This program was presented on our series last May at Palazzo Bardi, meeting place of the Florentine Camerata, the circle of compsoers, poets, and theorists who ushered forth the new form of opera.

Please join us for the second concert set in the ravishing 17th-century library of the House of the Redeemer, a space of the same era as opera's birth.

Click above to listen!

Giulio Il Romano was most recently presented on the Salon/Sanctuary series on our Florence season, in the courtyard of the Brunelleschi-designed Palazzo Bardi, where the Camerata Fiorentina met under the patronage of Count Giovanni Bardi di Vernio.

Enjoy the photos below from the Florentine performance by Nathan Smith. To see our complete Florence photo album, click here.