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Froberger - Complete Fantasias and Canzonas | Divine Art DDA25204

Froberger - Complete Fantasias and Canzonas

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Label: Divine Art

Cat No: DDA25204

Barcode: 0809730520426

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

Works

Froberger, Johann Jakob

Fantaisie-Duo in D minor, FbWV208
Fantasia in G major, FbWV207
Libro II
» Canzonas (6), FbWV301-306
» Fantasias (6), FbWV201-206

Artists

Terence Charlston (clavichord)

Works

Froberger, Johann Jakob

Fantaisie-Duo in D minor, FbWV208
Fantasia in G major, FbWV207
Libro II
» Canzonas (6), FbWV301-306
» Fantasias (6), FbWV201-206

Artists

Terence Charlston (clavichord)

About

Froberger’s fantasias and canzonas are amongst his most beautifully crafted yet most neglected works. They survive together with toccatas and partitas in a meticulously written autograph manuscript, the Libro Secondo, dated 19 September 1649. This is the first recording of all 14 works on the clavichord. Froberger was a most important figure in the early baroque period, helping to develop the style of the ‘dance suite’ so well known from the later hands of Bach, Handel and so many more.

The instrument used here is a reconstruction (2009, Andreas Hermet) of a South German clavichord which is in the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum. It is an ideal vehicle for the strongly contrapuntal music of Froberger. The clavichord is a small, quiet instrument but does have a wide dynamic range and even variable vibrato – an extremely difficult instrument to master.

Terence Charlston is one of the UK’s foremost exponents of early keyboard music both as a soloist on organ, clavichord and harpsichord, and as a chamber musician, having been a member of both the London Baroque and Florilegium. He has initiated many new editions and recordings of early music and has developed an international reputation as one of the leaders of this area of music.

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