This release features a collection of songs by composer Sisizmondo D'India. D'India, during his lifetime wrote madrigals and sacred music, but his most famous works are airs and laments for solo voice which are of a unique poetry. Each of these songs is rich in expressiveness, their big melodies drawing the listener's attention and marking D'India as a formitable composer of his day. Also included are instrumental solo pieces of some of D'India's contemporary composers, Carlo Calvi, Girolamo Kapsberger, and Alessandro Piccinini. Soprano Claudine Anselme's singing is full of emotion, and both she and her lutist partner Paolo Cherici are experts of this music period. This is a rich recording, full of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque gems.