Composer: Giulio Cesare Arresti, Giulio Caccini, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Arcangelo Corelli, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Peter Philips, Giovanni Picchi, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Galeazzo Sabbatini, Alessandro Striggio, Domenico Zipoli
Performer: Sophie Yates
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0819
Release: 2019
Size: 1.38 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sabbatini: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
01. No. 99, Praeludium
Philips: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
02. No. 70, Tirsi, di Luca Marenzio
03. Tisdale’s Virginal Book: Passamezzo pavana
04. Tisdale’s Virginal Book: Galliarda passamezzo
Arresti: 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori
05. No. 18, Aresti
Philips: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
06. No. 71, Freno
Colonna: 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori
07. No. 7, Colonna di Bologna
Caccini: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
08. No. 82, Amarilli
Frescobaldi: Toccate e partite d’intavolatura, Libro 2
09. No. 7, Toccata in D Minor, F 3.07
Philips: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
10. No. 76, Passamezzo pavana
11. No. 77, Galliarda passamezzo
Striggio: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
12. No. 78, Chi farà fede al cielo
Pollarolo: 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori
13. No. 2, Pollaroli di Venezia
Philips: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
14. No. 72, Così morirò
Picchi: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1
15. No. 95, Toccata
Zipoli: Sonate d’Intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1, Pt. 1
16. No. 11, Canzona in G Minor
Corelli: Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 7 (Arr. for Harpsichord)
17. I. Preludio. Vivace
18. II. Corrente. Allegro
19. III. Sarabanda. Largo
20. IV. Giga. Allegro
All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and harpsichordist, musically active from about 1760 until his death, Fitzwilliam created a legacy of exceptional importance to English musical culture. The recording features the Boni harpsichord from the Fitzwilliam Collection, was originally made by Giovanni Battista Boni who worked in Cortona in Tuscany. In some ways it is conventional for its time, having a slab sawn cypress soundboard and light cypress case, but its original set-up was a highly unusual one, with three sets of strings at the same 8 ft pitch. During a previous restoration, by Trevor Beckerleg in 1975, the third register, which had been out of use, was re-instated and this gives the player more resources than does the usual Italian harpsichord: both the front and back rows of jacks pluck the same set of strings but in different places, which gives them a distinctly different timbre, and the various combinations of the three registers provide the player with five distinct sounds to choose from.