PALPITI DEL CUORE

Venice, Rome, Naples witnessed the birth of the compositions found on this CD, places with pasts of thriving musical communities. In addition, these contained some of the greatest artistic innovation of the time. The «stile moderno», which marks the beginning of a new period in music, has its origins in Italy in the late 16^th ­century, when composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Giulio ­Caccini created a new «expressive» style, soon to affect the development of the whole of occidental music.