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Melancholy Grace
Jean Rondeau
Rondeau's new release, Melancholy Grace, is a poetic collection of 16th and 17th century keyboard music from Italy, the Netherlands, England and Germany. Among the composers are Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Sweelinck, Dowland, Bull and Gibbons. The album is shaped as a sombre, but eloquent dialogue between two contrasting voices: melancholy conveyed through chromaticism and melancholy conveyed through the musical expression of tears and weeping.
Each voice finds expression on a different instrument: a 16th century Italian virginal (a compact harpsichord) for the 'tears' and a modern replica of a large 18th century harpsichord for the 'chromatic' pieces.
Classical|Renaissance|Baroque
Track list
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- Frescobaldi: Toccata Settima - Second Book (1637)
- Di Roma: Fantaisie De Mr De Lorency - Manuscrit Bauyn (1660)
- Rossi: Passacaille Del Seigr. Louigi- Manuscrit Bauyn (1660)
- Strozzi: Toccata Quarta Per L'elevationec (1687)
- Sweelinck: Fantasia Cromatica
- Picchi: Ballo Alla Polacha Con Il Suo Saltarello (1618)
- Bull: Melancholy Pavan
- Bull: Melancholy Galliard
- Scheidemann: Pavana Lachrymae D'apres Dowland Wv106
- Picchi: Ballo Alla Polacha Con Il Suo Saltarello (Version I)
- Luzzaschi: Toccata Del Quarto Tuono
- Storace: Recercar Di Legature - Selva Di Varie (1664)
- Frescobaldi: Toccata Quarta - First Book (1637)
- Frescobaldi: Toccata Prima - First Book (1637)
- Picchi: Ballo Alla Polacha Con Il Suo Saltarello (Version II
- Valente: Sortemeplus, Con Alcuni Fioretti (1578)
- Dowland: Lachrimae Verae - Lachrimae Oder Sieben Tranen
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