Artist: Maria Luisa Baldassari

Title: Durante: Harpsichord Works

Year Of Release: 2022

Label: Urania Records

Genre: Classical

Quality:  flac 24bits - 88.2kHz

Total Time: 01:13:03

Total Size: 1.5 gb



Tracklist



01. Toccata in F Major

02. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 8, Toccata in F Major

03. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 1, Toccata in C Major

04. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 9, Fugue in G Major

05. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 2, Toccata in D Minor

06. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 3, Fugue in B-Flat Major

07. Toccata in A Minor

08. Toccata in C Major

09. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 4, Toccata in D Minor

10. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 5, Sonata in D Minor

11. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 6, Sonata in C Major

12. Toccate inedite per cembalo: No. 7, Sonata in A Major

13. Le quattro stagioni del anno: I. Primavera

14. Le quattro stagioni del anno: II. Estàte

15. Le quattro stagioni del anno: III. Autunno

16. Le quattro stagioni del anno: IV. Inverno

17. Sonata No. 1 in G Minor: I. Studio

18. Sonata No. 1 in G Minor: II. Divertimento

19. Sonata No. 2 in D Major: I. Studio

20. Sonata No. 2 in D Major: II. Divertimento

21. Sonata No. 3 in C Minor: I. Studio

22. Sonata No. 3 in C Minor: II. Divertimento

23. Sonata No. 4 in A Major: I. Studio

24. Sonata No. 4 in A Major: II. Divertimento

25. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor: I. Studio

26. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor: II. Divertimento

27. Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: I. Studio

28. Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major: II. Divertimento



Musician and teacher, Francesco Durante was so known at his time, that his name was given to a compositional school (that of the "durantisti"). He composed mostly vocal music, especially sacred, of which his keyboard works make up a limited part, where virtuosity is extremely common; elements like the very rapid scales, the arpeggios or the crossing of the hands are also widely found in other contemporaries from Naples, but his writing preserves characteristic features which are absolutely personal.



Under the generic title of toccatas, pieces in improvisational style can be found, as well as sonatas and fugues in the Italian style. The Studii e Divertimenti are dedicated to, and probably printed at the expense of, Giacomo Francesco Milano, prince of Ardore, a nobleman and highly talented musician who was a pupil of Durante. The prince was well known abroad too, particularly in France, where he lived for several years as ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Studii e Divertimenti have a regular structure, which is not commonly found in the Italian keyboard collections of the time: each tude, with its rather rigorous contrapuntal structure and substantial duration, is accompanied by a short divertimento in the same tone.