Sophie Yates -Il Cembalo Transalpino-Musik aus der Fitzwilliam -Chandos Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

01. "Prelude"

02. "Tirsi morir volea"
Passamezzo Pavan and Galliard from Tisdale's Virginal Book

03. "Passamezzo Pavan"

04. "Passamezzo Galliard"
XVII Sonates da Organo o Cimbalo del Sig.

05. "Sonata"

06. "Fren? Tirsi il desio"
XVII Sonates da Organo o Cimbalo del Sig.

07. "Sonata"
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

08. "Amarilli, mia Bella"
Toccate e partite d'intavolatura.

09. "Toccata settima"
Passamezzo Pavan and Galliard from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

10. "Passamezzo Pavan"

11. "Passamezzo Galliard"
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

12. "Chi far? fede al cielo"
XVII Sonates da Organo o Cimbalo del Sig.

13. "Sonata"
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

14. "Cos morir?"

15. "Toccata"
Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo

16. "Canzona"
Sonata, Op.5 No.7 from Sonate (Rome, 1700)

17. "Preludio. Vivace"

18. "Corrente. Allegro"

19. "Sarabanda. Largo"

20. "Giga. Allegro"

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All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by it's founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 - 1816). 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 The recording features the Boni harpsichord from the Fitzwilliam Collection, was originally made by Giovanni Battista Boni who worked in Cortona in Tuscany.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 it's time, having a slab sawn cypress soundboard and light cypress case, but it's original set-up was a highly unusual one, with three sets of strings at the same (8 foot) 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.

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CHAN0819

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