FRESCOBALDI GIROLAMO

(15-CD SET) FRESCOBALDI: COMPLETE EDITION
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 the f...
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(CD) SALVE REGINA
Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi were two of the most influential musical figures in 17th-century Italy; while the former's boundary-pushing madrigals, operas and sacred works changed the course of Baroque vocal music irrevocably, the latter was one of the first - and most prominent - composers to devote serious attention to composing for the keyboard. This new recording celebrates the influence that these two composers continue to exert over performers and audiences today - and the fascination that their music inspires - throug...
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(2-CD) IL PRIMO LIBRO DELLE FANTASIE A QUATTRO - CANZONI ALLA FRANCESE
Girolamo Frescobaldi was the most significant figure in Italian keyboard music before Scarlatti. He worked in the city of Ferrara in northern Italy, a hotbed of progressive influences, particularly in the fields of singing, instrumental performance and musical rhetoric. Frescobaldi was, therefore, ideally placed to absorb the influences of Flanders, Rome, Naples and nearby Venice and, influenced by advances in keyboard technology and performance techniques, developed his mastery of both organ and harpsichord. Volume 10 in the Brilliant Cla...
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(CD) IL PRIMO LIBRO DI RECERCARI
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) is the most significant figure in Italian keyboard music before Domenico Scarlatti. He was born in the northern city of Ferrara which, under the Este family had become a major centre for the musical avant-garde. Frescobaldi thrived in this heady environment, and this together with the influences he had picked up from his travels to Rome and Flanders gave his music its distinctive style. He became organist at St Peter's in Rome, and when the new St Peter's was completed in 1615 it was equipped with two super...
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