Frescobaldi and the South. Intendami chi può che m’intend’io

Featuring

Francesco Corti
Andrés Locatelli
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Giovanni de Macque
Rocco Rodio
Scipione Stella

Francesco Lambardo
Michelangelo Rossi
Bernardo Storace
Giovanni Salvatore
Luigi Rossi

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Composer Biography

Girolamo Frescobaldi, a successful 17th-century musician, was a pupil of the famous Luzzasco Luzzaschi and witnessed the rich artistic activity at the Este court in Ferrara.

Compositional Technique

Frescobaldi's music shows connections to both northern Italian repertoires and the Neapolitan tradition, influenced by figures like Carlo Gesualdo, a nobleman from Lucania with strong ties to Ferrara.

Interpretation

Frescobaldi's prefaces often present a challenge to performers, balancing freedom and unpredictability with precise notation, inviting a collaborative dialogue between composer and interpreter.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Frescobaldi's music was characterized by fluidity in musical forms, technical demands of almost unperformable virtuosity, and often fanciful manipulation of thematic subjects.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Frescobaldi often included instructions in his publications to help performers decipher his innovative compositional and interpretative techniques, sometimes with enigmatic captions like 'Understand me if you can…'.

Compositional Technique

Frescobaldi's Ricercar con obligo di cantare la quinta parte senza tocarla, featured on this album, suggests an enigmatically notated vocal part to be inserted by the performer, played here by a recorder.

Composer Biography

Frescobaldi's appointment as organist at St Peter's in Rome in 1608 was a major turning point, as it was one of the most sought-after positions in Italy and Europe.