Title: Toccata Artist: Various Artists Label: Ricercar Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5400439004078 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019-09-27 Number of Discs: 1
For this first recording, Andrea Buccarella explores the history of the most emblematic form of Baroque music, from it's appearance in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century right up to it's apotheosis in Johann Sebastian Bach: the toccata. With it's inventiveness, it's formal freedom, it's contrasting effects of virtuosity and emotion, the Italian toccata - whose name probably comes from the verb toccare (to touch/play) - opened the way for the stylus fantasticus that was to dominate Germany in the late seventeenth century. In order to give each period it's optimal sound, Buccarella plays copies of four different harpsichords - two Italian, one Flemish and one German - which, in their dates and types of construction, illustrate the principal stages of Baroque instrument making.
Tracks: 1.1 Toccata prima (Toccate d'intavolatura d'organo, II libro) 1.2 Toccata (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) 1.3 Toccata (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) 1.4 Toccata X (Primo Libro di |Toccate e Partite d'intavolatura di Cimbalo) 1.5 Toccata VII (Toccate e Correnti d'intavolatura d'Organo e Cimbalo) 1.6 Toccata III (Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone et altre partite) 1.7 Toccata IV Cromatica con durezze e ligature 1.8 Toccata IV 1.9 Toccata in G BuxWV 165 1.10 Toccata in A 1.11 Toccata in D BWV 912
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