Frescobaldi - Complete Edition Vol.5
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 93794
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th September 2009
Contents
Artists
Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord, organ)About
The Second Book was composed 12 years after the first, in 1627, when Frescobaldi was at the height of his creative powers and, indeed, his prestige: he was organist at the then-largest church in the world, the Roman Basilica of St Peter. It is a more eclectic collection than the first. It has eleven toccatas to start but continues with an intabulated madrigal, some canzonas and some stylised dance music, four sets of variations and a set of liturgical items appropriate for Vespers.
It is these last pieces, especially, which mark out this volume as different. Reproducing the sort of music Frescobaldi played regularly in St. Peter’s or in other Roman institutions, it consists of sets of versets for alternative performance with a plainsong choir, of four hymns, and of Magnificats in three of the church tones or modes.
The toccatas in Book Two seem even more assured than those in the earlier book, more structured but also more diverse, many of them including tripletime sections and more regular canzona-like segments.
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