Featuring works by Dowland, Lanier, Rossi, and Monteverdi, this program explores the overlapping musical worlds of Elizabethan lute song and Italian recitative lament, finding particular corollaries in the music of Nicolas Lanier and Luigi Rossi. Lanier’s expansive scena Hero’s Lament to Leander breaks the strictures of small form lute song, channeling its heroine’s complex emotional shifting sands through the Italian recitative style and pairing exquisitely with Rossi’s exquisite Lamento di Zaida moro.