"Music from the City of the Spanish Viceroys" is dedicated to Milan under Spanish Habsburg rule, an Italian musical center that receives little attention today. After Francesco II Sforza's death in 1532, the duchy passed through French hands to the Holy Roman Empire and came under the governance of Spanish viceroys. Between the plague years of 1576 and 1630, a flourishing cultural life developed under Archbishop Federico Borromeo.

The program sketches a compact picture of this musical landscape – both sacred and secular. The emphasis lies on the Milan-characteristic "canzon-motet" practice, which brings vocal ensembles and instruments together in dialogical forms. Also heard are motets for double chorus, canzonas, and rarely performed, expressively crafted madrigals by Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, known as a violin virtuoso and master of improvised diminution.

Works to be heard include compositions by Giovan Paolo Cima, Andrea Cima, Agostino Soderini, Francesco and Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, and Giuseppe Gallo.