Jean Rondeau plays Sweelinck: Fantasia cromatica
Melancholy Grace by Jean Rondeau presents two sides of melancholy in Baroque music. The expression through chromaticism is here illustrated in Dutch composer Sweelinck s Fantasia cromatica. Discover the album: The French harpsichordist has conceived the album as a somber but eloquent dialogue between two contrasting voices: melancholy conveyed through chromaticism and melancholy conveyed through the musical expression of tears and weeping. Among the eight chromatic composers are Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Luzzaschi, and Sweelinck, while the weeping composers are Dowland, Bull, Gibbons, Valente, and Scheidemann (who has an anonymous piece attributed to him). For the chromatic pieces of the program, including this piece by Frescobaldi, he records on an Italianstyle harpsichord made by Philippe Humeau in 2007 after an anonymous early18thcentury model. Warner Classics Website: Subscribe to
|
|