Fabio Antonio Falcone - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: The Art. Of Variation - Secular Cycles

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premiera polska: 2023-01-16
kontynent: Europa
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Niderlandzki kompozytor, mistrz muzyki klawiaturowej i pedagog Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck był jednym z czołowych kompozytorów swoich czasów i ostatnim wielkim mistrzem polifonii holenderskiej i flamandzkiej, a zarazem twórcą przełomu renesansu i baroku. Jest nazywany "Orfeuszem z Amsterdamu". Skomponował liczne wariacje, toccaty, fantazje oraz madrygały, psalmy, motety. Napisał ponad 250 utworów wokalnych oraz utwory na instrumenty klawiszowe jak wirginał, klawesyn, organy.
Wśród utworów Sweelincka na instrumenty klawiszowe znaczącą grupę stanowią cykle wariacyjne. To właśnie do nich sięgnął Fabio Antonio Falcone, uczeń m.in. Boba van Asperena i Kennetha Weissa, nagrywający dla Glossa, Pan Classic, Brillant i Arcana. Fabio Antonio Falcone wybrał cykle wariacji na temat świeckich pieśni i tańców.
Specjalista od XVI-wiecznego repertuaru klawiszowego, Falcone ożywia te arcydzieła, podkreślając bogactwo ich kontrastujących odcieni. Falcone gra na słynnym klawesynie Johannesa Ruckersa (1632/1745), użyczonym przez Musée d’art et d’histoire w Neuchâtel.

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… and finally the Dutch leading label releases a disc of music by the Dutch greatest master, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Fabio Antonio Falcone presents the well known sets of variations on secular songs and dances.
A specialist in 16th-century keyboard repertoire, Falcone revives these celebrated masterpieces, highlighting the wealth of their contrasting shades.
A recording rich in contrasting colours, enhanced by the use of the famous Johannes Ruckers harpsichord (1632/1745) preserved at the Musée d’art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, although considered an isolated phenomenon, transformed Amsterdam into the centre of interest for keyboard music. Today, Sweelinck is considered not only one of the most famous organists, but also one of the leading composers of his time and the last great master of Dutch and Flemish polyphony. His work is not conceivable without Venetian and, most importantly, English models. Even though he was not widely travelled, Sweelinck remained amazingly well informed throughout his life.
Despite his fame and importance, not a single work for keyboard instruments survives in an autograph source, not even in a copy authorised by the composer. His keyboard works have survived in some thirty scattered and not always reliable manuscripts. This body of work is far from complete, and the copies mostly date from after the composer’s death. It is thanks to Sweelinck’s pedagogical activity and his numerous students, that the compositions have survived at all.
Among Sweelinck’s pieces for keyboard instruments, the variations cycles form a significant group. They include variations on chorale melodies, melodies from the Genevan Psalter, Lutheran songs, as well as on secular models. The latter, however, are undoubtedly the most delightful pieces Sweelinck ever composed, for they reveal the composer’s lighter, sometimes humorous side. It seems that Sweelinck composed most of the keyboard works in the last two decades of his life. This is evidenced by a mature style, compositional perfection, and unity.

Fabio Antonio Falcone is a passionate performer who focuses on Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire. He is especially interested in sixteenth-century Italian keyboard music, as well as vocal and instrumental repertoire of the early Baroque period.
He performs at international venues and festivals as a soloist and continuo player with several ensembles, including Ensemble Elyma, Stile Galante, Genève Baroque, Ensemble Lucidarium and Ensemble Odissee Orchestra.
Together with mandolin player Anna Schivazappa, in 2012 he founded the ensemble Pizzicar Galante, of which he was co-director until 2019. In 2015 he also founded L’Amorosa Caccia, an ensemble with which he has been exploring instrumental and vocal repertoire from the Renaissance with a special focus on Italian frottolas and madrigals. His solo recordings are highly appreciated by international critics and broadcast by the most important European radio broadcast stations (BBC, Radio RAI, Radio France, BR-Klassik, WDR3, RTVE, Radio Classica, CKRL 89,1).
Apart from his activities as a concert performer, he devotes himself to research in music didactics, in particular to the reconstruction of teaching practices from the didactical analysis of historical sources. He is currently a member of the research group in didactics of the arts (DAM) at the University of Geneva.
He studied in the Netherlands with Bob van Asperen, as well as in Italy with Maria Luisa Baldassari and Jesper Bøje Christensen, and in Switzerland with Francis Biggi and Kenneth Weiss.

muzycy:
Fabio Antonio Falcone - Harpsichord

utwory:
1. Ballo del Granduca, SwVW 319 (04:40)
2. Pavana Philippi, SwVW 329 (08:03)
3. Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt, SwVW 324* (05:41)
4. Unter der Linden grune, SwVW 325 (05:02)
5. Ich fuhr mich u?ber Rheine, SwVW 322 (06:13)
6. Pavana Hispanica, SwVW 327* (02:24)
7. Soll es sein, SwVW 330 (07:44)
8. Von der Fortuna werd ich getrieben, SwVW 320 (03:03)
9. Esce mars, SwVW 321 (04:18)
10. Paduana Lachrymae, SwVW 328 (05:12)
11. Malle Sijmen, SwVW 323 (01:12)
12. Allemande Gratie, SwVW 318 (03:36)

wydano: 2023-01-06
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