Frescobaldi - Toccatas & Partitas
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD921514
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 24th September 2012
Contents
Works
Toccate d'intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, Libro 2Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Libro 1
Artists
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord, organ)Works
Toccate d'intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, Libro 2Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Libro 1
Artists
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord, organ)About
Frequently cited as being as important for keyboard music as Monteverdi was for vocal and dramatic fare, the genius of the Ferrara-born Frescobaldi was amply recognised when working in Rome and Florence – periods when he published (and revised) the two books of toccatas (but including canzonas and partitas or variations sets) recorded by Bonizzoni here.
Frescobaldi’s toccatas allow for, and draw from Bonizzoni, great interpretative flexibility, calling for rhythmic freedom, not to say drama and emotion. Indeed, Bonizzoni, clearly mindful of the new demands of the seconda prattica in Frescobaldi’s time, likens the toccatas to being madrigals without words: poetry lies at the heart of his performances.
This new recording from Glossa has Bonizzoni playing on a splendid modern copy of an Italian Baroque harpsichord and on the idiosyncratic organ of the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua. Along the way, Bonizzoni has puzzled out, and describes in the booklet, how best to draw out the sound appropriate for Frescobaldi’s music from this mysterious instrument.
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