Raúl Mallavibarrena - Monteverdi Sessions (2019)

Monteverdi is a seductive enough composer as to meet and play his music with no other intention than to enjoy it, taking from here and there some of his most attractive works and giving them life. Monteverdi Sessions is the sonorous testimony of two days in which Musica Ficta and the Ensemble Fontegara met with the simple and plain intention of tasting the music of the Cremona genius, squeezing everything that we could get out of it. Both Musica Ficta and Ensemble Fontegara were founded by Raul Mallavibarrena with the intention of exploring early music. Currently, Musica Ficta is Eva Juarez, Marta Infante, Alicia Berri, Miguel Bernal, Luis Vicente and Raul Mallavibarrena, and Ensemble Fontegara consists of harpist Marie Nishiyama and guitarist Rafael Bonavita.