Francesco Cera
FRESCOBALDI FIRST MASTER OF THE BAROQUE

Francesco Cera harpsichord

FRESCOBALDI FIRST MASTER OF THE BAROQUE

G. Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Toccata prima​
Partite sopra l’aria di Ruggiero
Aria called the Frescobalda
Toccata nona Non senza fatiga si giunge al fine

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Frescobaldi was one of the major composers for keyboard instruments of the seventeenth century and in his work we find all those antithetical characters between tradition and innovation that we can find in the figurative and architectural art of the same period. Inside the splendid Sala dei Fiumi of Palazzo Ducale, you will breathe, together with the harpsichordist Francesco Cera, those late Renaissance atmospheres in a journey through touches and variations with an exquisitely improvisational cut.