Consort Mirabile - Fortuna - Old and new Versions of an Italian Song CD

Fortuna Desperata was the most popular Italian song of the fifteenth century and one of the most popular works of the entire Renaissance. The song was widely performed, was intabulated for both one and two lutes, for keyboard instruments and for viols and served as inspiration for six masses and at least thirty-eight other derived settings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. On the album ‘Fortuna’, the recorder ensemble Consort Mirabile has compiled settings of this song from various centuries to contemporary compositions inspired by Fortuna Desperata and recorded them with changing recorder instrumentations. The soprano Marta Redaelli and the countertenor Andrés Montilla-Acurero take part in some of the tracks.