Record label TRPTK announces todays release of Lotte Bovi and l’Ora Blù’s new album Vibrant Venice. Off to the Venice of the 18th century!
Go back in your mind to the Venice of the eighteenth century. The time of Vivaldi, Jommelli and Porpora. Venice was the musical city, “everyone” made music and lived from opera to opera. Singing people in the streets, a beautiful and unique time. The composers of the new TRPTK album Vibrant Venice have one special thing in common: they both worked in two of the four orphanages in the Italian city. The eighteenth century was unusual in that orphans were placed in orphanages that also guaranteed a musical education. Vivaldi gave violin lessons there, Porpora and Jommelli wrote pieces for a girls’ orphanage, among others. The children of that Ospedale della pieta became world famous. People from all over Europe visited Venice to attend their performances. Interestingly, they did so from behind bars and their faces were invisible.
Heartbeat of bustling Venice
The following text excerpt is printed on the album, TRPTK reports,“Lotte Bovi and the l’Ora Blù have tried to capture this dynamic in a deeply personal performance. With this album, they want to echo the heartbeat of the bustling Venice of yesteryear. A city where life and art flourished side by side, where people partied, made music, loved, sang, gambled and toiled tirelessly. Essentially a bustling Venice‘.
The album Vibrant Venice is available as a physical SACD, Hi-res download and spatial audio download.