OBRAS PARA CLAVICORDIO: Six Recercatas, Fugas y Sonatas
Alejandro Casal, harpsichord
BRILLIANT CLASSICS (2 CD) 95187
This record offers for the first time the complete Recercatas, Fugas y Sonatas (Obras para clavicordio) by Sebastián de Albero, first organist of the Capilla Real de Madrid between 1748 and 1756 and chamber musician to King Ferdinand VI. Considered in his time to be an exceptionally talented musician, his premature death made him one of the brilliant musicians whose promising career was cut short. These pieces represent a unique case in Spanish keyboard music for their fusion of novel and traditional, native and foreign elements. Sebastián de Albero shows a very rich personality, superior at times even to that of Scarlatti, as well as a novel way of thinking and an advanced harmonic language.
Casal is a fine player, vibrant, sensitive and idiomatic, and not at all afraid of the more bumptious irruptions of ornamental dissonance and sharply snapped rhythms that characterise Iberian keyboard music of the time. He brings fluent rhetorical order to the unmeasured ruminations of the recercatas, rigour to the fugues and imagination and colour throughout, especially in the sonatas that complete each of these six hybrid works.
10,00 Euro
SEBASTIÁN DE ALBERO (1722-1756) OBRAS PARA CLAVICORDIO: 6 RECERCATAS, FUGAS Y SONATAS
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Prima (en re)
1. Recercata. Ad libitum 2. Fuga. Allegro 3. Sonata. Allegro
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Seconda (en la)
4. Recercata. Ad libitum 5. Fuga. Andante
6. Sonata. Allegro
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Terzza (en Sib)
7. Recercata. Ad libitum 8. Fuga. Allegro 9. Sonata. Andante
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Quarta (en Sol)
10. Recercata. Ad libitum 11. Fuga. Allegro 12. Sonata. Allegro
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Quinta (en do)
13. Recercata. Ad libitum 14. Fuga. Andante 15. Sonata. Allegro
Recercata, Fuga y Sonata Sesta (en mi)
16. Recercata. Ad libitum 17. Fuga. Andante 18. Sonata. Andante
Alejandro Casal, harpsichord
Joachim José Antunes, Lisboa, copy by Ugo Casiglia, 2011
