Sophie Yates – Il cembalo transalpino (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Sophie Yates – Il cembalo transalpino (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:05 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos

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 (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The recording features the Boni harpsichord from the Fitzwilliam Collection, originally made by Giovanni Battista Boni who worked in Cortona in Tuscany.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 foot) pitch. During the last 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.

Tracklist:
1. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 99, Praeludium
2. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 70, Tirsi, di Luca Marenzio
3. Tisdale’s Virginal Book: Passamezzo pavana
4. Tisdale’s Virginal Book: Galliarda passamezzo
5. 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (Excerpts): No. 18, Aresti
6. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 71, Freno
7. 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (Excerpts): No. 7, Colonna di Bologna
8. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 82, Amarilli
9. Toccate e partite d’intavolatura, Libro 2: No. 7, Toccata in D Minor, F 3.07
10. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 76, Passamezzo pavana
11. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 77, Galliarda passamezzo
12. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 78, Chi farà fede al cielo
13. 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (Excerpts): No. 2, Pollaroli di Venezia
14. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 72, Così morirò
15. Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 (Excerpts): No. 95, Toccata
16. Sonate d’Intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1, Pt. 1: No. 11, Canzona in G Minor
17. Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 7 (Arr. for Harpsichord): I. Preludio. Vivace
18. Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 7 (Arr. for Harpsichord): II. Corrente. Allegro
19. Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 7 (Arr. for Harpsichord): III. Sarabanda. Largo
20. Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5 No. 7 (Arr. for Harpsichord): IV. Giga. Allegro

Personnel:
Sophie Yates, harpsichord

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