Maria Bayley (harp & soprano); Marco Orsini-Brescia (clavichord) - Manuel Rodrigues Coelho: Flores de Musica pera o Instrumento de Tecla, & Harpa (1620), Volume 5

Flores de Musica pera O instrumento de tecla & harpa is the only known work of Portuguese composer Manuel Rodrigues Coelho. Printed in Lisbon in 1620 and boasting more than five hundred pages, Coelho's Flores de Musica is one of the largest music works printed in the seventeenth century. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of its original publication, a new edition in three volumes has been published with the research being used to inform this major new recording series. Harpist and soprano Maria Bayley and clavichordist Marco Orsini-Brescia lend their artistry to this latest chapter in an ambitious recording project.