Young organist Francesco Rovigo was sent by Duke Wilhelm to study in Venice with master, Claudio Merulo, toward the end of the sixteenth century. After hosting him, the Archduke Charles of Bavaria would not let him return to his home in Mantua, and held him with great honors until his death in 1590.; Rovigo was clearly a high caliber musician. Even Claudio Monteverdi expressed his highest consideration for the artist.; This album is a live recording which brings out of the shadows what music of his remains in the archives of the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Rovigo was Kapellmeister and where his final resting place is, alongside Giaches De Wert, his masterful predecessor.
