October 13, 2025
Vincenzo Galilei (c.1520–1591): The Well-tempered Lute (Hyperion Records, CDA68017)
Long before Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier, Vincenzo Galilei—the father of Galileo—set out to explore the full range of keys in music, creating works of extraordinary ambition and difficulty for the sixteenth-century lute. The technical and expressive demands are immense, and in this first recording, Žak Ozmo...