La Morra / The Lion’s Ear: Music from the Age of Pope Leo X

Pope Leo X, scion of Florence’s beneficent Medici, inherited his family’s zeal for all artistic endeavors, but his passion for music was legendary. Because Leo was an accomplished composer and musician himself, the life of his court was unimaginably rich. Switzerland’s acclaimed early music ensemble La Morra brings to life the aural splendor of the Italian Renaissance and Leo’s musici segreti, the instrumentalists and singers who filled the Pope’...