One can understand how the keyboard music of early Baroque composer Girolamo Frescobaldi anticipates Bach in its systematic exploitation of available resources, and still be left cold by the experience of listening to it. This little disc by Montreal harpsichordist Hank Knox, a student of Kenneth Gilbert, does unusually well at the task of bringing Frescobaldi alive. Knox chooses a diverse set of works, more desirable and more true to what a Renaissance keyboardist would have done in a concert in a noble household than ...
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One can understand how the keyboard music of early Baroque composer Girolamo Frescobaldi anticipates Bach in its systematic exploitation of available resources, and still be left cold by the experience of listening to it. This little disc by Montreal harpsichordist Hank Knox, a student of Kenneth Gilbert, does unusually well at the task of bringing Frescobaldi alive. Knox chooses a diverse set of works, more desirable and more true to what a Renaissance keyboardist would have done in a concert in a noble household than recordings that plow though one or more of Frescobaldi's published sets. Knox brings out contrasts in the longer toccatas and hexachord pieces (pieces based on the subject ut re mi fa sol la), settling into an alternation of contrapuntal canzonas and dances in the middle of the program. He saves for last a work that is virtuosic both technically and intellectually, the Cento Partie sopra passacagli of 1637, a large ground-bass piece with elements of both the passacaglia and the chaconne....
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Add this copy of Affetti Cantabile to cart. $30.47, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by EARLY-MUSIC. COM.
