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Frescobaldi was the most influential composer for keyboard in Italy prior to Domenico Scarlatti. Bach copied out Frescobaldi’s Fiori Musicali, and he was also a strong influence on Fux and Buxtehude. His reputation has been slow to gain its rightful status over the past century or so.
This edition provides a superb opportunity to discover this neglected master of the Baroque. The project is masterminded by the harpsichordist and organist Roberto Loreggian, and previous individual volumes of the series have been well received. This is ther first ever complete edition of Frescobaldi’s music to be issued: a landmark on record, sure to be widely noticed by the musical press.
• A release of great importance: the
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first-time CD issue of the Complete Works of Girolamo Frescobaldi.
• The importance of Frescobaldi cannot be overrated: the Italian Renaissance master influenced a whole generation after him in the development of instrumental composition: his magnificent keyboard works are rich, virtuosic and grand in form, and have served as model for many composers after him (Froberger, J.S. Bach, Purcell, to name a few).
• The CD’s in this edition are all newly recorded, by the foremost scholar/musicians of Italy, using period instruments.
• Another spectacular “Integrale” by Brilliant Classics, a worthy successor of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and Corelli.
• Free CD-ROM included containing linernotes written by leading musicologists, and the complete texts of the vocal music.
• CD-ROM for booklet essays and sung texts.
• New recordings.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Book 1 by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Loreggian (Harpsichord)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1615/1628; Rome, Italy
2.
Il primo libro della canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Conductor:
Roberto Loreggian
Orchestra/Ensemble:
ConSerto Musico
Period: Baroque
Written: 1628; Italy
3.
Messa sopra l'aria di Fiorenza by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Conductor:
Sergio Balestracci
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Stagione Armonica
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
4.
Fiori musicali di diverse compositioni: Messa della Monica by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Conductor:
Sergio Balestracci
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Stagione Armonica
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
5.
Fiori musicali di diverse compositioni by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Loreggian (Organ)
Conductor:
Nicola Bellinazzo
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Schola Gregoriana Scriptoria
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1635; Italy
6.
Il secondo libro de toccate, canzone...di cimbalo et organo by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Lorregian (Keyboard)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1627; Italy
7.
Il primo libro de'madrigali by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Conductor:
Bettina Hoffmann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Modo Antiquo Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1608
8.
Primo libro d'arie musicali per cantarsi by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Conductor:
Bettina Hoffmann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Modo Antiquo Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
9.
Il primo libro di capricci fatti sopra diversi soggetti et arie in partitura by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Lorregian (Organ),
Silvia Frigato (Soprano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1626; Italy
10.
Il primo libro di recercare by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Lorregian (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
11.
Il primo libro delle fantasie, a 4 by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Lorregian (Harpsichord)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1608
12.
Canzoni alla francese in partitura...libro quarto, a 4 by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Roberto Lorregian (Keyboard)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1645; Italy
Customer Reviews
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Frescobaldi's views to entertain and inspire July 4, 2012
By Stephan Cohenroellvaneyck (SOUTH WENTWORTHVILLE, NSW) See All My Reviews
"In the spheres of Brussels, South of Calvinistic North-Netherlands, abundance of lifestyle and glorious chamber music come here to life.
The clavecin music is intimate and easy to enjoy, the organ works are surprising, some tracks are nice light aerie and fluty and also there are some heavy (full works) as to prove the abundance of the richness of old church music sounding and resounding in cathedrals
There are tunes one recognizes and others, altogether a collection that enjoys the true lover of this music which is composed here as the beginning of the baroque style in the region of Brussels and Antwerp. One can see the way he wants you to see him, in the picture on the box set"
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