FRESCOBALDI // Organ Works by Bernard Foccroulle

Album available: Videoclip design and production: Philippe de Magnée GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI ORGAN WORKS BERNARD FOCCROULLE While the organ works of Girolamo Frescobaldi have their roots in the polyphonic tradition of the Renaissance, few virtuosos of the early seventeenth century approached with such originality the expressive movement that opened the way to what we regard today as ‘Baroque music’. Frescobaldi transposed to the keyboard that feeling for affect and virtuosity which, in the domain of opera, radically disrupted all the conventions of vocal music. He championed a flexible performing style, freed of excessively rigorous constraints, and insisted that the musician must play ‘con affetti cantabili’ (with the affects of vocal music). Unlike many other recordings of the works of Frescobaldi, which offer performances on organs of northern Italy, this one is played on three instruments from Rome and Umbria, recorded for the first time. The organ of Santa Barbara dei Librari in Rome () is one of the rare surviving examples of a Roman instrument contemporary with Frescobaldi. The other two organs are those of the church of San Francesco in Trevi (Maestro Paolo di Pietropaolo da Montefalco, 1509) and the church of Cerreto di Spoleto (A. Belforti, 1580 and A. Maccioni, 1620). ---------------------- More info on Outhere: Subscribe to channel: Facebook: Twitter: Follow on Soundcloud @outhere-music