Performer: Andrea Buccarella
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ricercar
Release: 2019
Size: 2.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Merulo: Toccate d’intavolatura d’organo, libro 2: Toccata prima
02. Sweelinck: Toccata 9. Toni a1, SwWV 296
03. Picchi: Toccata
04. Frescobaldi: Toccata decima
05. Rossi, M: Toccata settima
06. Froberger: Toccata No. 3, FbWV 103
07. Kerll: Toccata cromiticaa Nr. 4
08. Weckmann: Toccata IV in A minor
09. Buxtehude: Toccata in G, BuxWV 165
10. Reincken: Toccata in A major
11. Bach, J S: Toccata in D major, BWV912
For this first recording, Andrea Buccarella explores the history of the most emblematic form of Baroque music, from its appearance in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century right up to its apotheosis in Johann Sebastian Bach: the toccata. With its inventiveness, its formal freedom, its contrasting effects of virtuosity and emotion, the Italian toccata – whose name probably comes from the verb toccare (to touch/play) – opened the way for the stylus fantasticus that was to dominate Germany in the late seventeenth century. In order to give each period its optimal sound, Buccarella plays copies of four different harpsichords – two Italian, one Flemish and one German – which, in their dates and types of construction, illustrate the principal stages of Baroque instrument making