"Passaggi" are virtuoso melismatic ornamentations, which are particularly characteristic of Italian music in 1600. However, the present CD is also a varied musical journey from the Gulf of Naples to of the into the lagoon of Venice to which Jean Tubéry and the excellent musicians of his Ensemble La Fenice invite us. Unlike today, that did not work then, and so here are the eternal Rome, the art-loving Florence and the Ambrosian Milan intermediate stations of the musical journey. You can hear that here are specialists at work who contribute almost a quarter of a century (since 1990) of experience into their interpretations of this fascinating