Titian, Venice and the Music of Love

Willaert, da Milano, Ortiz, Ganassi, Rogniono

A.Gabrieli, Rore, Bassano, Giovanni da Modena,

This recording was created for the Titian exhibitions

which took place at the National Gallery in London

For Titian music was most certainly the food of love.

Musicians appear frequently in his paintings

delicately, sensually holding or playing their

instruments, often in the company of a naked Venus

as in Venus and the Lute Player housed in the

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the

paintings of Venus and the organ player in the Prado

Museum, Madrid and the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Concordia subsequently toured the programme in