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Frescobaldi - Gesualdo - Solbiati: Music For Accordion
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Frescobaldi - Gesualdo - Solbiati: Music For Accordion

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Composer
FRESCOBALDI GESUALDO
Artist
Francesco Gesualdi
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 24, 2017
Catalog #
BRI94972
UPC
5028421949727

About

On this new and interesting release, the works of two Italian Renaissance masters are performed on the accordion. The accordion is slowly emancipating, shedding its “light entertainment” image and claiming its right as a serious and valuable musical instrument. Its possibilities are enormous, its sounds and sonorities as varied as a church organ. This new recording presents keyboard works by Frescobaldi and Gesualdo, works which were intended for either harpsichord or organ, and therefore may be played on any keyboard instrument. The realization on accordion is fascinating in its fusion of both the harpsichord (its tactile precision) and the organ (its sustained polyphony.) Italian Francesco Gesualdi is one of the world’s foremost accordionists. He commissioned works for his instrument with many contemporary composers, and is well connected with composers such as Marucio Kagel, Sofia Gubaidulina and Wolfgang Rihm.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata I 04:42
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata I
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  2. 2 Toccata II 04:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    Toccata II
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  3. 3 Toccata III, "da sonarsi alla Levatione" 08:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    Toccata III, "da sonarsi alla Levatione"
    Duration
    08:51
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  4. 4 Toccata IV, "Da sonarsi alla Levatione" 06:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    Toccata IV, "Da sonarsi alla Levatione"
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  5. 5 Toccata ottava, "di durezze e ligature" 05:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    Toccata ottava, "di durezze e ligature"
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  6. 6 Partite sopra L'Aria della Romanesca (arr. for accordion) 21:49
    Track
    6
    Title
    Partite sopra L'Aria della Romanesca (arr. for accordion)
    Duration
    21:49
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  7. 7 Canzon francese del Principe 06:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    Canzon francese del Principe
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Carlo Gesualdo
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi
  8. 8 II Movimento–da Gesualdo per Gesualdi 03:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    II Movimento–da Gesualdo per Gesualdi
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Alessandro Solbiati
    Performer
    Francesco Gesualdi