1600 in Italy: music is in the midst of a revolution. The great composers of the time passionately embraced the new style, which placed the text and the expression of feelings-the affeti-in the foreground.
Guided by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli and Sigismondo d'India-among those who bestunderstood the change in aesthetic sensibility and musical language at the dawn of the Baroque-and sublimated by the voice of Mariana Flores, this bewitchingly gentle program is an invitation to introspection and contemplation.