Arie Musicali (Intégrale) [CD de audio] Modo Antiquo and Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Frescobaldi was an influential composer of the Italian early Baroque. The Brilliant Classics Frescobaldi edition has already gained a firm place in the specialist world as an interpretive-logical memoir of one of the most important composers on the threshold of the Renaissance to the Baroque. The newly released Volume VII displays all the secular arias for singing voice and various baroque instruments, such as theorbo, guitar, and viola da gamba. The subtle recording was played with original instruments by Modo Antiquo, an outstanding combo of specialists in this repertoire, almost forgotten today. Frescobaldi was actually an organ virtuoso and known for his affecting playing. This form-becoming-passion quality is also shown in Frescobaldi's vocal works. In 1634 he obtained the coveted position of organist at St. Peter's in Rome. There Frescobaldi must have experienced enormous successes, it is said that thousands of spectators regularly gathered at his concerts in St. Peter's Square. In his toccatas, songs, ricercares and variations the prototypes of the suite were created, which his student Johann Jakob Froberger later completed. Many German organists traveled to Rome to study with Frescobaldi.