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Erin Headley’s sensational new early music group Atalante is named in honour of Leonardo da Vinci’s friend and pupil Atalante Migliorotti, inventor of the lirone. That magic and ethereal bowed instrument has been Erin Headley's domain for the past 30 years, through an astonishing number of performances and recordings that have been acclaimed worldwide. In the 17th century the lirone was said to ‘transport the soul and elevate the spirit’. Its true realm was the lament, a genre embracing the wh Visit site »| Tweet |