Venice, Rome and Naples are the places of origin of the presented pieces – places of an equally flourishing and brilliantly bright musical past. “Palpiti...

Venice, Rome and Naples are the places of origin of the presented pieces – places of an equally flourishing and brilliantly bright musical past. “Palpiti del Cuore” (Palpitations of the Heart) traces these historic locales’ musical development across the glorious Italian Baroque era. The young ensemble La Botta Forte plays vocal and instrumental music from the beginnings of the ‘stile moderno’ in the 17th c. to the High Baroque in the 18th c. Each ensemble musician is proficient on several instruments, that flexibility allowing for a greatly expanded repertoire.