Girolamo

Girolamo Frescobaldi - Toccatas & Partitas - Roberto Loreggian
Frescobaldi Edition, Vol. 1: Il Primo Libro di Toccate (1615-1637)
Classical, Baroque | 2 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 809 MB
Recorded: 25-28 Feb. & 24 Nov. 2007, Villa Beatrice d'Este, Baone
& Chiesa di S. Bernadino, Verona, Italy | Released: 2008
Label: Brilliant 93767 | TT: 59:00, 63:39 | Rapidshare
Roberto Loreggian - harpsichord

Brilliant Classics is recording the complete harpsichord music of Girolamo Frescobaldi [1583-1643], in lively and historically informed interpretations by Roberto Loreggian. This first volume contains his toccatas and partitas, which were much admired by J. S. Bach. They have never left the repertory of keyboard players and their challenges and rewards are just as stimulating today as they were for the those who eagerly snapped them up in the 17th century.

Girolamo Frescobaldi - Secular Madrigals - Modo Antiquo/Bettina Hoffmann
Frescobaldi Edition, Vol. 6: Il Primo Libro dei Madrigali a cinque voci (1608)
Classical | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 205 MB | RS
Recorded: 13-15/4 2008, Oratorio San Francesco Poverino, Florence
Released: 2009 | Label: Brilliant 93793 | TT: 41:56
Modo Antiquo, dir. Bettina Hoffmann

Volume 6 of this path-breaking series, the first to record every extant work by Girolamo Frescobaldi, focuses on the secular madrigals. These works - he wrote one book, and evidently hoped to write more - are no less innovatory than the keyboard works that so impressed and influenced J. S. Bach. […] The nineteen madrigals with which Frescobaldi introduced himself have an admirable clarity of formal design that gives each line its due weight in terms of duration and emotion, and a transparent counterpoint that favours delicacy over density as a stylistic means, homophonic and polyphonic sections being cleverly alternated. It is pleasing to see the respect that Frescobaldi pays to the texts: the words are set to graceful melodic phrases, and never obscured by excessive counterpoint, but interpreted literally with immediate attention to meaning. (brilliantclassics.com)

The attribution of works to Benvenuto di Giovanni and his son Girolamo di Benvenuto is problematic and is complicated by the fact that the two undoubtedly collaborated on several works. Focusing on two paintings in the Museum’s collection, the authors reexamine attributions to these artists and compare the paintings to work in other collections in the United States.

Quoi de mieux que l’erreur pour montrer la mécanique des sciences. Non pas la supercherie, mais l’erreur, ou plutôt ce que l’on juge comme tel à la lumière des avancées scientifiques ultérieures.
Parmi celles détaillées par Girolamo Ramunni dans ce livre : Italie, Florence : Galilée et les marées, Angleterre, Cambridge-Londres : Newton et la gravitation, Hollande, Delft …

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.