On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Primo Libro di Toccate (1615), Arcana is proud to make this reference recording of Girolamo Frescobaldi's most popular work available again. Here, Rinaldo Alessandrini shows to full advantage his well-known skills as keyboard virtuoso as well as his familiarity with the madrigal repertoire of the time, so important for a proper approach to this revolutionary book, whose basic elements are the affetti and where rhetoric became the interpretive key. Two period Italian instruments are used here, making it possible to rediscover the colors appropriate to Frescobaldi's music: a harpsichord attributed to
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Toccate D'intavolatura Di Cimbalo Et Organo - Libr
12 Capriccio Fra Lacopino Sopra L'aria Di Ruggiero
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1 Toccata Undecima
2 Capriccio Fatto Sopra la Pastorale
3 Toccata Duodecima
4 Toccata Nona
5 Partite 6 - Sopra L'aria Di Follia
6 Toccata Settima
7 Passachagli
8 Balleto Secondo - Corrente Del Balletto
9 Toccata Quinta
10 Balleto - Corrente Del Balleto - Passachagli
11 Toccata Sesta
12 Corrente E Ciaconne
13 Toccata Otava
14 Corente Quattro
15 Toccata Decima
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Primo Libro di Toccate (1615), Arcana is proud to make this reference recording of Girolamo Frescobaldi's most popular work available again. Here, Rinaldo Alessandrini shows to full advantage his well-known skills as keyboard virtuoso as well as his familiarity with the madrigal repertoire of the time, so important for a proper approach to this revolutionary book, whose basic elements are the affetti and where rhetoric became the interpretive key. Two period Italian instruments are used here, making it possible to rediscover the colors appropriate to Frescobaldi's music: a harpsichord attributed to
