Ferrini: Opere per clavicembalo
Giovan Battista Ferrini
Ferrini: Opere per clavicembalo
Our knowledge of seventeenth-century Italian keyboard music is based for the most part on the works of those few composers who were able at the time to have their compositions printed. But many other composers are mentioned in various other contemporary sources (literary, theoretical or musical) about whom the official history of keyboard music knows little or nothing. These musicians left nothing printed, and often we know of them only from brief and scarce examples of their art in the manuscripts of the so-called “tablatures” for harpsichord and organ. Just such a figure is the Roman musician Giovan Battista Ferrini (about 1601-1674). Better known to his contemporaries as “Giovan Battista della spinetta”, Ferrini may be considered as one of the most interesting Italian keyboard composers of the generation at work between Frescobaldi and Bernardo Pasquini. Testifying to this are the numerous laudatory references made to him by important musical theorists such as the composer Romano Micheli, the famous Jesuit Athanasius Kircher in his Musurgia universalis and Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni in his Guida armonica.
Tracklist
Ferrini, Giovanni Battista
Tastata
Ballo di Mantova (3 variazioni)
Trombetta
Corrente
La Rotta
Passagalli*
Aria di Fiorenza Prima, Second, Terza, Quarta (4 variazioni)
Corrente*
La Spagnoletta
Ciaccone
Corrente*
Passagalli
Balletto Primo - Balletto Secondo
Toccata*
Corrente
Passagalli
Galiarda Prima - Galiarda Seconda
Toccata
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Toccata Prima
Capriccio sopra il Cucho [Chigi MS]
Ferrini, Giovanni Battista
Toccata Seconda
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Partite sopra L'aria di Fiorenza
Ferrini, Giovanni Battista
Toccata Terza
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