I Fagiolini with guest speaker, and Leonardo expert, Professor Martin Kemp.

Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, pioneer of flight, anatomist, scientist – yet according to Vasari, Leonardo’s first job outside Florence was as a musician. ‘Music cannot be regarded other than as the sister of painting‘, said Leonardo, so for the 500th anniversary of his death in 2019, I Fagiolini and Martin Kemp offer reflections of his images in vocal music: aural fantasia dei vinci – art through the prism of music, in works by Tallis, Victoria, Monteverdi, Bach, Howells and Daniel-Lesur. The title ‘Shaping the Invisible’ – Leonardo’s phrase – is a new commission by Adrian Williams and poet Gillian Clarke for eight voices, celebrating Leonardo’s scientific investigation and obsession with flight.

A series of Leonardo’s works will be projected during the concert, and the concert programme has been released on CD by CORO: COR16171.

More information here: www.musicatoxford.com/concerts/leonardo-shaping-the-invisible-i-fagiolini