Release Date: 01 October 2018
Label: Tactus
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8007194106886
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Niccolò Jommelli, Muzio Clementi, Giovanni Rutini
Description
Among practices distinguishing the European music scene in the second half of the eighteenth century, the performance of music for two players on the same keyboard is certainly one of the more remarkable developments. The rendition of a four-handed piece on the harpsichord or the fortepiano can be considered an example of the direction that music was about to take: light-hearted, convivial, and educational, in which quality existed alongside the intention to satisfy the new 'galant' tastes of the aristocracy, as well as the needs of the rising middle class. The four-handed genre becomes, in this regard, an ideal setting to express the new musical feeling. On a historical copy of the famous harpsichord maker Martin Sassmann, Alberto Firrincieli and Mario Stefano Tonda perform the singular repertoire that sees protagonists Nicolò Jommelli, Muzio Clementi and Giovanni Maria Rutini, in these compositions reflecting their different peculiarities.
Tracklisting
Tuscae Voces; La Pifharesca; Elia Orlando
Raffaella Milanesi; RomaBarocca Ensemble; Lorenzo Tozzi
Ecclesia Nova; Concerto Romano; Alessandro Quarta
Chroma Baroque Ensemble
VARIOUS ARTISTS
STEFANO SEVERINI
R. FABBRICIANI, M. DAMERINI
P. TOGNON, C. VEHR
