Luca Guglielmi - Sonatae a Viola Da Gamba & Cembalo Obligato - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

If you believe Charles Burney, the English music scholars and European travelers in terms of music, then was hard to determine what was miserable, the Italian harpsichords or the Italian harpsichordist in the 1770s. But an exception in his polemical verdict he would certainly have done with Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785), whom he visited in Venice in 1770. Galuppi was not only an excellent opera composer, but also devoted to keyboard instruments truly enchanting music that was like his Opere buffe Europe estimated. The famous Italian harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi has recorded for Accent nine of his sonatas on four different types of keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano) Italian origin - a successful and very entertaining vindication for Italian harpsichordist and their instruments. Album Tracks 1. Keyboard Sonata in D Major [Illy No. 46] Largo 2. Keyboard Sonata in D Major [Illy No. 46] Allegro 3. Keyboard Sonata in D Major [Illy No. 46] Andantino 4. Sonata Per Flauto, for Organ in B Flat Major [Illy No. 96] Andante 5. Sonata Per Flauto, for Organ in B Flat Major [Illy No. 96] [Senza Indicazione] 6. Keyboard Sonata in E minor, Op. 2/3 [Illy No. 3] 7. Keyboard Sonata in a Minor [Illy No. 66] Siciliana 8. Keyboard Sonata in a Minor [Illy No. 66] Allegro 9. Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38] Sonata 3 in C minor. Allegro Moderato 10. Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38] Sonata 3 in C minor. Allegretto 11. Sonata for Violin & Piano in a Minor Op. 1/3 Largo 12. Sonata for Violin & Piano in a Minor Op. 1/3 Allegro 13. Organ Sonata in G Major 14. Keyboard Sonata in a Flat Major [Illy No. 19] Andantino 15. Keyboard Sonata in a Flat Major [Illy No. 19] Allegro Assai 16. Keyboard Sonata in C Major [Illy No. 27] Andante 17. Keyboard Sonata in C Major [Illy No. 27] Allegro 18.

Würzburg will surely have a little-known musical highlight next to the famous residence and it's been painted by Tiepolo staircase by Balthasar Neumann. Here worked with Giovanni Benedetto Platti (ca. 1697-1763) since 1723 an important pioneer of the fortepiano in Germany. Still in Italy, he had the inventor of this new instrument, Bartolomeo Cristofori met, and also the Würzburg prince bishops apparently showed a keen interest in it. Thus platti one of the first composers in Germany, who have also written especially for this instrument. His late sonatas harpsichord already have classic style elements, which he is also one of the pioneers of the classical style in Germany. Luca Guglielmi has recorded them for Accent and sets his highly acclaimed recording project of Italian keyboard music continued. Album Tracks 1. Sonata for Keyboard No. 17 in B Flat Major Allegro 2. Sonata for Keyboard No. 17 in B Flat Major Adagio 3. Sonata for Keyboard No. 17 in B Flat Major Presto 4. Sonata for Keyboard No. 18 in E Flat Major Largo 5. Sonata for Keyboard No. 18 in E Flat Major Allegro 6. Sonata for Keyboard No. 18 in E Flat Major Tempo Di Menuet 7. Sonata for Keyboard No. 18 in E Flat Major Allegro 8. Sonata for Keyboard No. 11 in C minor Adagio 9. Sonata for Keyboard No. 11 in C minor Allegro 10. Sonata for Keyboard No. 11 in C minor Allegro 11. Sonata for Keyboard No. 10 in a Minor, Op. 4/4 Allegro 12. Sonata for Keyboard No. 10 in a Minor, Op. 4/4 Adagio 13. Sonata for Keyboard No. 10 in a Minor, Op. 4/4 Allegro Assai 14. Sonata for Keyboard No. 13 in F Major Andantino 15. Sonata for Keyboard No. 13 in F Major Allegro 16. Sonata for Keyboard No. 13 in F Major Menuet 17. Sonata for Keyboard No. 13 in F Major Presto 18. Sonata for Keyboard No. 14 in C Major Allegro 19. Sonata for Keyboard No. 14 in C Major Andantino 2

If you were to set up a pantheon of musical history, Girolamo Frescobaldi as likely (1583-1643) entitled without doubt one of the most prominent places. The recording of the Italian harpsichordist and organist Luca Guglielmi illustrates very clearly two very distinctive aspects of musical aesthetics Frescobaldi on the one hand, the free form models in which is revealed the seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity of the composer, on the other hand the art of counterpoint, thematic and metric-rhythmic variation, as they can be found in his partitas suites, dances and Capricci for keyboard instruments. In his mature period (from about 1624) to Frescobaldi's main focus of variation and it's various aspects appears to have turned. His special preference was given to the mixing of different forms and modes of composition, where he constantly explores new ways of combining. For his recording Guglielmi uses the excellent copy of an anonymous Italian harpsichord from the 17th century and was built in 1750 by Giacomo Filippo Landesio organ of the Church Parish in Piedmont Luserna San Giovanni. Album Tracks 1. Aria Detta la Frescobalda 2. Toccata VII 3. Toccata IX 4. Partite Sopra L'aria Di Follia 5. Ancidetemi Pur D'archadelt Passaggiato 6. Toccata VII 7. Balletto 8. Corrente 9. Passachagli 10. Toccata V 11. Toccata IV 12. Canzona IV 13. Capriccio Di Durezze 14. Toccata Avanti Il Recercar 15. Recercar Cromatico Post Il Credo 16. Toccata Per Le Levatione 17. Bergamasca