Frescobaldi: Toccate, Canzone E Partite

Yashima, Yu

BARY 2014-01

The keyboard works by Girolamo Frescobaldi (Ferrara, 1583 Roma 1643) are undoubtedly one of the most important literary highlights of its kind. They also represent one of the key milestones in the long and difficult path this genre underwent to achieve the equal status enjoyed by vocal music. Until then, cultured music was cultivated and supported by the aristocracy and was music intended exclusively for voice. During the era of Humanism and the Italian Renaissance, the courts were well and truly at the centre of the best that Europe had to offer musically: firstly, there was the Flemish polyphony for mass services and motets, then poetry in music for solo voices accompanied by aeri and frottole, and lastly, the genre that best of all explored the infinite possibilities of the text-music relationship: the madrigal. Yu Yashima was born in Osaka and was playing piano by the age of 3. After graduating from the Osaka College of Music and subsequently from the Toho-Gakuen College of Music with her post-diploma in harpsichord, she moved to Milan and enrolled at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. Here she studied the harpsichord and fortepiano, basso continuo, the organ and 16th Italian Music.

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