Simone Pierini, the performer on this album, graduated in piano with highest honors from Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome at age 18.
Instruments
The harpsichord used for this recording was made in 2011 by Giulio Fratini & Pierpaolo Pallotti, modeled after a C. Grimaldi instrument.
Interpretation
The extensive use of figured bass in Tinazzoli's keyboard works requires the performer to improvise counterpoint and add or remove voices to create dynamic effects, following early 18th-century Italian stylistic rules.
Compositional Technique
Tinazzoli used the terms Sonata, Toccata, and Capriccio interchangeably for his keyboard works, with no clear criteria for assigning these genre labels.
Composer Biography
Tinazzoli was reportedly released from prison because of a musical composition he wrote on the wall with coal, as stated in the manuscript of his cantata In carcere penoso privo.
Composer Biography
Agostino Tinazzoli, the composer of these keyboard works, was incarcerated in Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome for an unspecified crime, a fact explicitly stated in manuscripts of his cantata In carcere penoso privo.
Compositional Technique
A key feature of these pieces is the pervasive use of basso continuo, with works almost constantly notated in two voices but with figured bass numeration throughout.
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