How can one express feelings with purely instrumental music? This album attempts an answer to this question with music by Italian composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. David Brutti and Nicola Lamon demonstrate the extravagant stylistic possibilities of Baroque music. In the decades around 1600, the dominance of the human voice and text in music was broken. At first, polyphony was ornamentally embellished to replace the "loss" of the text. But later, as the boundaries between vocal and instrumental music became more fluid, instrumental solos emerged from the vocal lines. And finally, in the third decade of the 17th century, a new, free and independent instrumental music emerged, mixing quite freely polyphony, dance-like sections, and emotionally charged phrases. Brutti demonstrates this development on three different instruments, and Nicola Lamon alternates between a harpsichord (a replica of an instrument from 1681) and two historical organs from 1578 and 1660, respectively.