World-premiere recordings of motets by a host of unknown names from the early Italian Baroque: the latest result of performing scholarship by a group with a notable track record of success in this repertoire. International critics have praised the ‘expert performan-ces’(Gramophone) of Cappella Artemisia, and the intrepid adventurousness of the ensemble’s founder, Candace Smith, in turning up one buried treasure after another, most of them to be found in the music libraries of Italian convents. The latest fruits of her research have turned up lamentations by Carlo Donato Cossoni, Alessandro Della Ciaia, Giovanni Matteo Asola, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Agostino Guerrieri, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Giovanni Battista Strata, Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – and the best known name among them, Anonymous.

Carlo Donato Cossoni: Morior misera
+Alessandro Della Ciaia: Feria Quinta, Lamentatione Prima; Lamentatio Virginis in depositione Filij de Cruce
+Giovanni Matteo Asola: Lamentationes in Coena Domini
+Chiara Margherita Cozzolani: Quid miseri, quid faciamus?
+Agostino Guerrieri: Sonata malinconica
+Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana: Usquequo oblivbisceris me in finem?
+Giovanni Battista Strata: Deh, che fai, anima mia
+Maria Francesca Nascimbeni: O trafitto mio Dio
+Anonymus: La Monaca Musica