Frescobaldi - Stylus fantasticus & the Art of Variation | Accent ACC24226

Frescobaldi - Stylus fantasticus & the Art of Variation

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Label: Accent

Cat No: ACC24226

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 20th February 2012

Contents

Artists

Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
Luca Guglielmi (organ)

Artists

Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
Luca Guglielmi (organ)

About

Girolamo Frescobaldi can justifiably be considered as the grand master of harpsichord and organ music during the Italian Baroque. His toccatas are impressive firework displays of emotion and untrammelled imagination, and full of effects and affects which repeatedly confirm the composer’s reputation as a great artist of improvisation.

Frescobaldi was a master of the so-called stylus fantasticus which permitted great freedom in tempo and structure and demanded an interpretation which would give the impression that the artist was genuinely improvising as he performed. Frescobaldi not only displayed great artistry in his toccatas and other free forms, but also great virtuosity in (contrapuntal, thematic and metrical-rhythmical) variation forms as demonstrated by his partitas, suites, dances and capriccios.

As was the normal contemporary practice, Frescobaldi’s compositions were intended generally for “keyboard instruments” and only rarely do we observe the specification of a particular instrument, e.g. for the organ. In his recording, Luca Guglielmi performs on the harpsichord (a copy of an anonymous Italian instrument from the 17th century by Michele Barchi) and also on the historical organ dating back to 1750 built by Giacomo Filippo Landesio in Luserna San Giovanni in Turin.

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