Di Laccio/Cordella/Capela St - Affetti Barocchi: Arias & Laments in 17th Century Italy

The 'Italian Seicento' witnessed the birth of the opera and had a lasting effect of what came to define music, as we know it today. And it was in the repertoire of music for solo voice that composers of the early seventeenth century more easily found the freedom of declamation and emotional objectivity. In this period of musical experience, a great musical achievement was the discovery and development of ways of communicating the �extreme affections, ranging from violent pain to exuberant joy'.