Sadler & Conrad sing through their instruments, exploring the wild and progressive polyphony of Madalena Casulana (c.1540-c.1590) - the first woman to publish compositions under her own name. Through intimate and intricate interpretations of her music, featuring diminutions, special instrumental arrangements, and discant, tenor, or bass traverso in combination with lute, we enter into a type of dialogue with Casulana herself. Her complex and sonorous madrigals shine brilliantly alongside works by her contemporaries Cipriano de Rore and Orlando di Lasso, as well as dances by Giorgio Mainerio.