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Johann Jacob
FROBERGER
Fantasie ∙ Canzoni

Antonio VALENTE・Il ballo dell'Intorcia
Giovanni Battista FERRINI・Il ballo di Mantova
Athanasius KIRCHER・Antidotum Tarantulae

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FERNANDO DE LUCA
harpsichord

ANTONIO VALENTE
(?1520 - 1580/81)

da "Intavolatura de cimbalo", libro primo (Napoli 1576)

• Lo Ballo dell'Intorcia

JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER
(Stuttgart, 1616 - Héricourt [Montbéliard], 1667)

FANTASIE dal "Libro secondo di Toccate, Fantasie, Canzone, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, et altre Partite", (Vienna 1649)

1. FbWV 201: Fantasia I sopra Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La
2. FbWV 202: Fantasia II
3. FbWV 203: Fantasia III
4. FbWV 204: Fantasia IV sopra Sol, La, Re
5. FbWV 205: Fantasia V
6. FbWV 206: Fantasia VI

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER
(Geisa [Fulda], 1601 - Roma, 1680)

da "Magnes sive de arte magnetica", Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Iodocvm Kalcoven, anno MDCXLIII

• Antidotum Tarantulae
  (arr. by Fernando De Luca)

JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER

CANZONI dal "Libro secondo di Toccate, Fantasie, Canzone, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, et altre Partite", (Vienna 1649)

1. FbWV 301: Canzona I
2. FbWV 302: Canzona II
3. FbWV 303: Canzona III
4. FbWV 304: Canzona IV
5. FbWV 305: Canzona V
6. FbWV 306: Canzona VI

GIOVANNI BATTISTA FERRINI
(Rome, c.1600 - 1674)

• Variazioni sul "Ballo di Mantova"

Issue 2015-09

• Froberger: Recorded in Cagliari, 2015 May 14-16
  Flemish harpsichord built by F. Granziera (1993)
  after a Ruckers-Taskin model (Taskin 1780); Temp. mesotonique

• Kircher: Recorded in Rome, 2015 May 23
  French harpsichord built by C. Caponi (1985)
  after Blanchet (1754); Temp. Werckmeister III

• Valente/Ferrini: Rec. in Venice, 2012 Oct 27/Dec 31
  German harpsichord built by F. P. Ciocca (2007)
  after Christian Vater (1738); Temp. Werckmeister III

Pitch A=415Hz

Georg Flegel, Cupboard (detail), c. 1610 - Národní Galerie, Prague

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