Chaconne / Rinaldo Alessandrini, Harpsichord

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Album Summary

Performer

• Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)

Composers

• Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627 - 1693)
• Georg Muffat (1653 - 1704)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Bernardo Storace (circa 1630 - after 1665)
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
• François D'Agincour (1684 - 1758)
• Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699 - 1782)
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
• Louis Couperin (circa 1626 - 1661)
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656 - 1746)
• Rinaldo Alessandrini (1960 - )
• Juan Cabanilles (1644 - 1712)
• György Ligeti (Composer) (1923 - 2006)

Notes & Reviews:

This unique recording re-introduces Rinaldo Alessandrini as a solo harpsichordist and reviews the concepts of chaconne and passacaglia in the most eclectic and captivating way. This recording is the first album for years featuring Rinaldo Alessandrini as a harpsichordist and not as a conductor. This is a highly interesting recording presenting an eclectic program that reviews the concepts of chaconne and passacaglia over music history, from Frescobaldi to Ligeti. On this album Rinaldo Alessandrini recorded a piece composed by himself - Deraisonnable beaute - alongside masterpieces of famous composers such as Handel, Couperin and Purcell.

Gramophone Magazine
Alessandrini gets right down to business, opening with a bracing and full-bodied rendition of Frescobaldi's Partite cento sopra passacagli that vigorously plays up the music's audacious harmonies and energetic momentum... Alessandrini's original Chaconne simply flows from his beautifully reproduced instrument like cool oil.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Oratorio del Gonfalone, Rome, Italy (02/2008).

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Frescobaldi, Girolamo : Il secondo libro di toccate

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 7 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Cabanilles, Juan Bautista : Passacalles de primo tono for Organ

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Cabanilles, Juan Bautista : Pasacalles IV de IV Tono

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Storace, Bernardo : Selva di varie composizioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo e organo :: Ciaccona

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 6 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1664

Couperin, Louis : Chaconne for harpsichord in G minor (Pièces de clavecin, no 121)

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Kerll, Johann Kaspar : Ciaccona Variata for keyboard

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Purcell, Henry : Chaconne for Harpsichord in G minor, Z T680 "Timon of Athens"

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1694

György Ligeti (Composer) (1923 - 2006) : Passacaglia Ungherese, for harpsichord

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 5 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1978

Couperin, Louis : Passacaille for harpsichord in G minor (Pièces de clavecin, no 98)

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Muffat, Georg : Passacaglia for organ in G minor (from Apparatus musico-organisticus, Part 2)

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 8 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

François D'Agincour (1684 - 1758) : Chaconne "La Sonning" for harpsichord (Second Ordre, Piéces de clavecin, 1733)

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand : Les pièces de clavessin, Op. 2

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand : Suite for keyboard in D minor "Urania", Finale "passacaglia"

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1738

Handel, George Frideric : Chaconne and Variations (21) for Harpsichord in G major, HWV 435

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 6 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: circa 1705-1717

Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste : Il Suite - Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin :: La Buisson. Chaconne - Gratieusement

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 5 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Alessandrini, Rinaldo : Chaconne "Déraisonnable beauté" for harpsichord

• Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2008