Recorded on a harpsichord by Nicolas Celini from 1661, these are definitive new readings by Europeâs leading expert in Frescobaldiâs keyboard music, Christopher Stembridge.


12 MP3 Songs in this album (62:09) !
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SFZ MUSIC, the independent label for HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS & CORNETTS, are pleased to announce their latest release, a new reading of the 1615 Toccatas of Girolamo Frescobaldi, stunningly brought to life on an historic instrument by Christopher Stembridge.

The Toccatas of Frescobaldi are amongst his finest and most complex music, full of drama, emotion, and rhetoric. Christopher expertly couples with the warmth and clarity of the instrument with expressive of historical temperaments to produce flexible, moving and definitive performances.

Christopher Stembridge is much sought-after as a lecturer, editor, teacher and performer. He is acknowledged as the worldâs leading authority on the keyboard music of Frescobaldi: he is currently preparing the new Bärenreiter edition of the composerâs organ and keyboard music for which he was recently awarded the Noah Greenberg Prize by the American Musicological Society.

âThere are few keyboard players capable of endowing a performance with such musicality, delivered through such sensitivity of touch and articulation...â Early Music Review

âHaving laboured over presenting in his edition [of Ascanio Mayone's keyboard music] a text as close to the original as possible, [Stembridge's] performance seems to delight in treating that text as flexibly as possible ... the absence of a regular pulse reminds me of early 20th-century Chopin playing ...the performances here are impressive, and present the little-known composer in an attractive and convincing way.â Early Music News