FREE REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/1o9MNnOThe proposed programme covers nearly a century of Italian secular music, from the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. The period was one of the most dense of changes in musical language. The madrigal reached its apex and gradually declined; the growth in popularity of the “basso continuo” and the monody induced an expansion of the pathetic and dramatic capabilities of vocal music and opened the door to the development of opera; instrumental music was emancipated from voice and it built its own peculiar repertoire. Artistic Director: Aurelio PorfiriIn cooperation with Choralife Publisher & Choralife Association Dian Paramita, soprano Luca Marconato, theorbo Programme “Portraits” Luca Marconato, Intro solo – Variazioni su un cielo in la minore Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1661), Capona Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1639), Ciaccona in partite variate Giulio Caccini (1550-1618), Dalla porta d’oriente Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Se l’aura spira Alessandro Piccinini, Toccata VI Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Si dolce è ’l tormento *** Robert de Visée (1650-1725), Chaconne Giulio Caccini, Amor ch’attendi Hieronymus Kapsberger, Ite sospiri miei Hieronymus Kapsberger, Toccata arpeggiata Bellerofonte Castaldi (1581-1649), Cecchina Giulio Caccini, Amarilli Giulio Caccini, Tu ch’hai le penne amore Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665), Folle è ben che si crede