Giovanni Picchi: harpsichord works

Ton Koopman, harpsichord
(copy of Stephanini 17th c.)

Toccata
Ballo detto il Picchi
Ballo ongaro
Padoana ditta la Ongara
Pass’e mezzo antico de sei parti
Saltarello del ditto Pass’e mezzo
Todesca
Ballo ditto il Stefanin
Ballo alla polacha

Picchi was so influential in the development of Renaissance keyboard music that he even appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The recording is a scant thirty minutes long but the pieces are sprightly and the playing is classic Koopman.


Picchi by Koopman
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Antoine Forqueray père: pièces de viole

Suite nº 1 in d minor
Suite nº 2 in G major

Jordi Savall, bass viola da gamba (1697)
Christopher Coin, bass viola da gamba
Ton Koopman, harpsichord (1729)

Forqueray (1672–1745) was the gamba soloist of his day. His two suites, written for the court of the Duke of Orléans, are performed here on instruments that are contemporary with the music.


Forqueray viola da gamba
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François du Fault: lute works

Suite in c minor
Suite in a minor
Suite in g minor
Suite in C major
Pavane in e minor

Hopkinson Smith, one of the movers and shakers of the original-instrument movement, performing on a Venetian lute made in 1644. Little is known about the composer, who was a contemporary of the lute in this recording, yet his writing is sophisticated and idiomatic.


François du Fault lute 73.6 MB – no password

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