Portraits in Song: Music from Renaissance Italy, from Ciconia to Petrucci, in intimate settings for voices and instruments

Originally conceived as a musical complement to the exhibition The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 2011–March 2012), this program offers portraits of popes and nobles, lovers and married couples, patrons and friends, public figures, people unknown but for a first name given as an acrostic, and theatrical personalities including a cocky cook and a self-absorbed lover. Music by Johannes Ciconia, Guillaume Du Fay, Antoine Busnoys, Heinrich Isaac, and others offers vivid evocations of Renaissance people, performed by five singers and three players.