- [...] I am working with a lovely group (Florilegii Musici) and I assumed they where all "Banditi" from Cagliari, there is only one very very very very good lutenist who was from Sardinia (Antonio Fresi) and there's a beautiful soprano Cyntia Franchini from Argentina who was very good. There was a very good lutenist from Romania (Stefan Sandru) and a very good harpsichordist from Bologna (Anna Cortini): it was a lovely group [...]- 

Sir. John Eliot Gardiner in occasione del "Monteverdi Festival" di Cremona