Italian Harpsichordists on Guitar

Alberti, Domenico, Cimarosa, Domenico, Frescobaldi, Girolamo, Greco, Gaetano, Marcello, Benedetto, Paradies, Pietro Domenico, Pasquini, Bernardo, różni kompozytorzy, Scarlatti, Domenico, Zipoli, Domenico

De Innocentis, Antonio

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“The guitar is an expressive harpsichord” declared the composer Claude Debussy after a concert by the Catalan guitarist, Miguel Llobet. The classic guitar has benefited, more than most other instruments, from arrangements of music of many genres.

Renaissance and Baroque music especially suit the timbre and range of the guitar and keyboard music is ideal for playing on the guitar, often direct from the original score. Debussy’s comment may be unjust to harpsichordists, but the expressive limits of the guitar may be said to outweigh those of the harpsichord.

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643 )was born in Ferrara, one of the most musically stimulating cities in Italy at the end of the 1500s. He was organist of St Peter’s, Rome and is said to have also been a magnificent harpsichordist. His influence spread not just through Italy, but also north of the Alps.

Works:

•Frescobaldi: Passacaglia, F2.28
• Frescobaldi: Aria Con Variazioni Detta "La Frescobalda", F 3.32
•Gaetano Grieco: Aria Di Ballo
•Alberti, D: Giga (Presto) from Sonata, Op. 1 No. 4 [8] in G Minor
•Alberti, D: Allegro from Sonata da Camera in F Major
•Zipoli: Suite No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 18
•Pasquini, B: Partita Sopra L'aria Della Follia da Espagna
• Marcello, B: Allegro in G Major (Allegretto Con Grazia)
•Marcello, B: Allegro Con Brio from Sonata in C Major, S.704
•Marcello, B: Allegro from Sonata No. 4 Sf.736°
•Cimarosa: Sonata No. 58
•Cimarosa: Sonata No. 53
•Cimarosa: Sonata No. 61
•Cimarosa: Sonata No. 47
•Scarlatti, D: Sonata, K.1
•Scarlatti, D: Sonata, K.78 (Giga / Minuetto)
•Scarlatti, D: Sonata, K.27
• Scarlatti, D: Sonata, K.159
•Paradies: Allegro (Toccata) from Sonata No. 6 in A Major

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