Alfonso Ferrabosco of Bologna — suspended for life between the English court that made him, and the Italy he never fully left behind
This year's offering, Standomi un giorno, is no love lyric but a sequence of six visions, each of something beautiful shown at the moment of its destruction, closing with the poet's longing for death.
Orlande de Lassus, born in Mons, Rinaldo del Mel, born in Mechelen, and Alfonso Ferrabosco of Bologna each set the canzone entire, as a cycle in six parts — three complete settings of the same text, heard in succession and measured directly against one another.
