Ensemble Colorito: Affetti musicali - Venetian Music of the Seicento
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Genres
Classical
Musicals
Baroque Period
Formats
CD
Usages
School and Community

SKU: NX.COV92013

By Ensemble Colorito. By Alessandro Stradella, Antonio Vivaldi, Bellerofonte Castaldi, Biagio Marini, Dario Castello, Francesco Turini, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Giovanni Legrenzi, Marco Uccellini, and Michelangelo Rossi. Classical. CD. Naxos #COV92013. Published by Naxos (NX.COV92013).

It was a particularly innovative period: the telescope, the pendulum clock and Newton's laws of gravity are just a few examples of the developments and discoveries of the 17th century. No wonder that music also experienced many innovations. One of the most important was immediately a completely new genre: In the baroque opera, which developed from 1600 onwards, affects were the central means of creation; emotional states of the protagonists, which develop from the opera plot and can then be expressed with a rich canon of musical means. In the Venice of the ""Seicento"" this art reaches ever new heights and is then also transferred from opera to other musical genres - musical affects, purely instrumental. Some of these fascinating ""operas without words"" are presented by the Ensemble Colorito in the bright, intense color scheme to which it owes its name.