Andrea Buccarella – Toccata: From Claudio Merulo to Johann Sebastian Bach (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Andrea Buccarella – Toccata: From Claudio Merulo to Johann Sebastian Bach (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:12 minutes | 2,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this first recording, Andrea Buccarella explores the history of the most emblematic form of Baroque music, from its appearance in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century right up to its apotheosis in Johann Sebastian Bach: the toccata. With its inventiveness, its formal freedom, its contrasting effects of virtuosity and emotion, the Italian toccata – whose name probably comes from the verb toccare (to touch/play) – opened the way for the stylus fantasticus that was to dominate Germany in the late seventeenth century. In order to give each period its optimal sound, Buccarella plays copies of four different harpsichords – two Italian, one Flemish and one German – which, in their dates and types of construction, illustrate the principal stages of Baroque instrument making.

Tracklist:

01. Andrea Buccarella – Toccate d’intavolatura d’organo, libro 2: Toccata prima (04:58)
02. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata in A Minor, SwWV 296 (05:29)
03. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata (04:01)
04. Andrea Buccarella – Primo libro di toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo: Toccata decima, F2.10 (04:30)
05. Andrea Buccarella – Toccate e correnti d’intavolatura d’organo e cimbalo: Toccata VII (05:01)
06. Andrea Buccarella – Libro secondo di toccate, fantasie, canzone et altre partite: Toccata III in G major, FbWV 103 (03:22)
07. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata IV Cromatica con durezze e ligature (04:14)
08. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata IV (05:10)
09. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata in G Major, BuxWV 165 (05:06)
10. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata in A (06:12)
11. Andrea Buccarella – Toccata in D Major, BWV 912 (11:03)

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