Girolamo

From Frescobaldi's collections published between 1615 and 1637 Gustav Leonhardt has chosen ten works illustrating six of the classes of composition Frescobaldi cultivated: four toccatas, two partitas, a canzona, a ricercar, a Magnificat, and a capriccio. He performs six pieces on the organ and the other four on the harpsichord.
Leonhardt shows himself here to be a superb musician, both technically and temperamentally. He has taken almost infinite pains to achieve convincing and appropriate phrasing and articulation. When the music should be slow, he plays it slowly; but when it should not, he usually adopts very brisk tempos.

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. …