LA RUOTA DE LA FORTUNA
ROUE DE LA FORTUNE
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
The Anniversaries — Four composers, four turns of fortune — choose one, and
L'Isola brings him back to life
Life turns on a wheel: favour won is never favour kept. This is four programmes in
one: choose a single composer, and for one night L'Isola restores him to the place
fortune once denied him. François Roussel was praised by Palestrina as heaven-
sent, then eclipsed by the man who took his post at St Peter's. Annibale Padovano,
St Mark's first organist, was displaced from Venice and dead within five years of
leaving for Graz. Ascanio Mayone and Leone Leoni were both rediscovered only
through modern scholarship after centuries of silence. Pick your composer; the
wheel turns back in his favour.
You decide.
2026
Pecci @ 450 (il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci)
Galeno @ 400 (il primo libro de madrigali a sette voci)
Coprario @ 400 (the missing unpublished madrigals)
Renaldi @ 450 (rediscovering Padova)
2027
Ruimonte @ 400 (the lament)
Mayone @ 400 (il primo libro de madrigali)
Brognonico @ 400 (the Veronese master)
Padovano @ 500 (Venice: glass or class)