It is indicative of the general triumph of early music that even in Japan, where the repertoire has until recently been heavily skewed toward mainstream Classical-Romantic repertory, an album like this release, representing a quirky byway of classical music, may find an audience. For those in the know, the title Claviorgan Wonderland will be redundant, for the instrument involved, which as the name suggests is a harpsichord and small organ housed in a single shell, is truly a wondrous thing. Italian player Claudio Brizi, ...
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It is indicative of the general triumph of early music that even in Japan, where the repertoire has until recently been heavily skewed toward mainstream Classical-Romantic repertory, an album like this release, representing a quirky byway of classical music, may find an audience. For those in the know, the title Claviorgan Wonderland will be redundant, for the instrument involved, which as the name suggests is a harpsichord and small organ housed in a single shell, is truly a wondrous thing. Italian player Claudio Brizi, here using a modern instrument (few original examples exist), offers a sample of the century and a half of music that might have been played on the instrument. There are well-known pieces (Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, makes the cut) and obscure Baroque keyboard works like Abraham van den Kerckhoven's Fantasia in D minor. What makes it all hang together is Brizi's sensitivity in using the instrument to catch details in the music without introducing sectionality that is...
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Add this copy of Claviorgan Wonderland to cart. $58.21, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Albany Music Dist. Inc.
