专辑简介

This is the fifth and final volume in the Ligia series of the complete keyboard music of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643). Previous volumes reviewed in Fanfare include the Primo libro di capricci and Secondo libro di toccate (both 34:2), and the Primo libro di toccate (34:6). The present volume includes published collections from the beginning, middle, and end of Frescobaldi’s career. The Primo libro delle fantasie was published while the composer was still in Milan; it served as a kind of audition piece that eventually won him the position of organist at St. Peter’s in Rome. The Ricercari e canzoni were written at the same time as the Primo libro di toccate —at the end of Frescobaldi’s first sojourn in Rome, when his compositional powers were at their zenith. The Fiori musicali , a collection of liturgical organ music, is a product of Frescobaldi’s mature period, after he had returned to Rome from his lengthy sabbatical in Florence. The Fiori musicali can be said to have had the greatest impact on later generations: Both Johann Fux and J. S. Bach possessed copies and studied the Fiori assiduously for their contrapuntal secrets.