Dolcissimo sospiro - Tone Wik CD Trumpet and organ is a

Trumpet and organ is a combination associated with festivals and celebrations

When both parts are played

enigmatic musical terrain of strong mutual relationships

evolving through new interpretations by composers

Nordic Voices

Dolcissimo sospiro - Tone Wik CD Trumpet and organ is aDolcissimo sospiro is baroque in the use of 'clair obscur', a technique also employed in painting and sculpture of the early baroque era. Love and joy are juxtaposed with pain and death, and the 'sweetest sighs' of the title are ones of hope and despair. We are in early 17th century Italy. Composers such as Giulio Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi, Biagio Marini, Tarquino Merula, Paulo Quagliati and Sigismondo d'India have all written music to the poetry