Frescobaldi: Toccatas & Partitas

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

The two collections...are mountains scaled only by those with virtuosity, imagination, historical grasp and, most crucially, daring. Others have tried...but few have succeeded like Fabio Bonizzoni...Bonozzoni... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: GCD921514
Label: Glossa
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

February 2013

Instrumental Choice

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Frescobaldi: Toccate e partite d'intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, libro primo

Work length1:13:31

$16.00

$20.75

Fabio Bonizzoni (organ)

Toccata prima

Track length5:04

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata seconda

Track length5:44

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata terza

Track length3:35

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata quarta

Track length4:28

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata quinta

Track length4:59

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata sesta

Track length5:28

$1.00

$1.30

Partita sopra l'aria di Monicha

Track length4:23

$1.00

$1.30

Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca

Track length12:11

$3.00

$3.85

Partita sopra l'aria di Ruggiero

Track length8:12

$2.00

$2.60

Toccata settima

Track length5:18

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata ottava

Track length4:20

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata nona

Track length5:31

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata decima

Track length4:18

$1.00

$1.30

Frescobaldi: Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti

Work length59:27

$14.00

$18.20

Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)

Aria detto Balletto

Track length4:37

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata prima

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata seconda

Track length3:13

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata settima

Track length4:32

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata nona, "Non senza fatiga si giunge al fine"

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata decima

Track length4:58

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata undecima

Track length4:59

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata terza, "per l'organo da sonarsi alla levatione"

Track length7:06

$2.00

$2.60

Toccata quarta, "per l'organo da sonarsi alla levatione"

Track length5:52

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata quinta, "sopra i pedali per l'organo e senza"

Track length4:19

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata sesta, "sopra i pedali per l'organo e senza"

Track length5:07

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata ottava, "di durezze e ligature"

Track length4:26

$1.00

$1.30

Canzona quinta

Track length1:59

$1.00

$1.30

Toccate e partite d'intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, libro primo

Work length6:20

$1.00

$1.30

Toccata undecima

Track length6:20

$1.00

$1.30

Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti

Work length16:51

$4.00

$5.20

Canzona prima

Track length3:52

$1.00

$1.30

Canzona terza

Track length3:44

$1.00

$1.30

Aria detta la Frescobalda

Track length3:21

$1.00

$1.30

Ancidetemi pur

Track length5:54

$1.00

$1.30

About
Reviews
Explore

About

For as much as Fabio Bonizzoni is drawn to the splendours of Baroque music for voices and orchestra – as demonstrated through his award-winning recordings with La Risonanza – his keyboard-playing instincts are constantly urging him to tackle masterpieces of the keyboard repertory. Most recently having applied his musical insight and virtuosity to Bach’s 'Die Kunst der Fuge', Bonizzoni now pits himself against another, albeit earlier, Baroque master in Girolamo Frescobaldi.

Frequently-cited as being as important for keyboard music as Monteverdi was for vocal and dramatic fare, the genius of the Ferrara-born Frescobaldi was amply recognised when working in Rome and Florence – periods when he published (and revised) the two books of toccatas (but including canzonas and partitas or variations sets) recorded by Bonizzoni here. Frescobaldi’s toccatas allow for, and draw from Bonizzoni, great interpretative flexibility, calling for rhythmic freedom, not to say drama and emotion. Indeed, Bonizzoni, clearly mindful of the new demands of the seconda prattica in Frescobaldi’s time, likens the toccatas to being madrigals without words: poetry lies at the heart of his performances.

This new recording from Glossa has Bonizzoni playing on a splendid modern copy of an Italian Baroque harpsichord and on the idiosyncratic organ of the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua. Along the way, Bonizzoni has puzzled out, and describes in the booklet, how best to draw out the sound appropriate for Frescobaldi’s music from this mysterious instrument.

Reviews

February 2013

The two collections...are mountains scaled only by those with virtuosity, imagination, historical grasp and, most crucially, daring. Others have tried...but few have succeeded like Fabio Bonizzoni...Bonozzoni can take risks where others can't, owing to the brilliance of his musicianship matched with intellect that plumbs the depths of the score...It's a benchmark disc, fusing intellectual rigour with soulful expression.

25th November 2012

Who said that the harpsichord was not expressive? Under the nimble fingers of Fabio Bonizzoni, sonorously recorded, this copy of a 1694 instrument resonates with colour and warmth.

Early Music Today

Far from feeling an overdose of early seventeenth-century Italian-keyboard style, one is reminded of the huge diversity of melodic invention in Frescobaldi’s music, with constantly changing rhythms and meters providing endless variety for the listener.

Classical Music March 2013

Fabio Bonizzoni gives striking performances

Frescobaldi: Toccatas & Partitas

2 CDs

Downloads

Contents

Download queue