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Frescobaldi - Il Primo Libro di Capricci (Rome, 1624) | Tactus TB580692

Frescobaldi - Il Primo Libro di Capricci (Rome, 1624)

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TB580692

Barcode: 8007194200362

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st September 2017

Contents

Artists

Sergio Vartolo (harpsichord)

Works

Frescobaldi, Girolamo

Capricci (12), Book 1 (1624)

Artists

Sergio Vartolo (harpsichord)

About

Frescobaldi’s book of Capricci from 1624 was intended as a continuation of his 1615 book of Ricercari. It was clearly conceived, however, for the keyboard, an idiom for which this work is a masterpiece, both in regard to contrapuntal technique and to the exceedingly refined art and skill of harpsichord and organ writing. The interdependence of these two books is underlined by their publishing history already beginning with the second edition of the Capricci of 1626, and continuing for the later ones of 1628 and 1642. The first editions of the Ricercari (1615 and 1618) included five canzonas, after which the planned ‘second book’ in actuality took on such particular characteristics that Frescobaldi decided to give the work its own title, that of ‘Capricci’: ‘In these compositions entitled Capricci, I have not kept to as simple a style as in my Ricercari’.

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