Cecile Mansuy – La Spagnoletta: Selva di variazioni & diverse composizioni per il cimbalo (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cecile Mansuy – La Spagnoletta: Selva di variazioni & diverse composizioni per il cimbalo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:45 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana

No, “La Spagnoletta” is not the name of a composer: it’s the first piece on this album, which probably dates back to the late 16th century, and which provided many musicians with the raw material for fantasias, partitas, caprices, arias and all the conceivable musical forms then in vogue. We start with Giovan Battista Ferrini (1601-1674) and his Tastata per cembalo La Spagnoletta, followed by one of the “clearer” pieces, which takes up the source, The Old Spagnoletta by Giles Farnaby (1563-1640). Frescobaldi himself gets involved with his Capriccio VI sopra la Spagnoletta, while Johann Speth (1664-1719) throws in his Partite divers sopra la Spagnioletta and finally Bernardo Storace (1637-1707) his Aria sopra la Spagnoletta.

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