Turrini: 12 Sonatas for Harpsichord

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Release Date: 13th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: 95522
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 1 in C Minor

Work length10:44

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I. Vivace

Track length4:17

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II. Adagio

Track length3:58

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III. Schiava: Presto assai

Track length2:29

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 2 in A Major

Work length8:54

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro assai con molto brio

Track length4:07

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II. Lento ed affettuoso, il Basso sempre legato - Trio (Presto con disperazione)

Track length4:47

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 3 in E flat major

Work length15:22

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro ma non tanto con illarità

Track length6:20

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II. Adagio pensieroso

Track length6:05

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III. Presto assai risoluto

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 4 in B Minor

Work length6:41

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Presto

Track length4:39

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II. Andante

Track length2:02

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 5 in G Major

Work length11:51

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro cantabile

Track length3:59

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II. Adagio ad imitazione del Violuncello

Track length3:11

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III. Tema con variazioni

Track length4:41

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Fini": No. 6 in E Major

Work length11:38

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegretto spiritoso

Track length5:22

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II. Grave

Track length4:22

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III. Rondò: Allegro non tanto

Track length1:54

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 1 in G Major

Work length6:30

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro moderato

Track length4:45

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II. Andantino brillante

Track length1:45

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 2 in A Major

Work length10:11

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegretto con spirito

Track length5:01

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II. Variazione: Larghetto

Track length5:10

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 3 in E Major

Work length10:49

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro

Track length5:15

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II. Presto

Track length5:34

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 4 in G Minor

Work length8:33

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Presto

Track length4:17

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II. Allegretto affettuoso

Track length4:16

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 5 in E flat major

Work length7:45

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:32

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II. Allegro

Track length2:13

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Turrini: Harpsichord Sonatas (6), "Raccolta Spinola": No. 6 in D flat major

Work length13:09

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Michele Barchi (harpsichord)

I. Allegro assai

Track length3:51

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II. Un poco andante

Track length5:03

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III. Prestissimo

Track length4:15

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Early-Classical keyboard sonatas by a northItalian contemporary of Beethoven, much esteemed in his day and now almost unknown.

Brilliant Classics has long specialised in illuminating the music of composers who are largely lost to posterity – especially from Italy, and especially from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here is another name to conjure with and to quicken the blood of collectors eager to add another name to their shelves: Ferdinando Turrini, born in the town of Salò in 1845. His death date is much more uncertain – between 1812 and 1829 – but he passed away in Brescia, where he had become a much esteemed teacher, organist, master of music and composer.

Blindness afflicted Turrini in his late 20s, but it appears not to have stemmed the flow of an output that ranged from operas to sacred and instrumental music. Nearly all of it is now lost to us, and what survives does so almost exclusively in manuscript. In fact the six keyboard sonatas dedicated to the Genovese patrician Carlo Spinola were printed during Turrini’s lifetime, whereas the other six sonatas on Michele Barchi’s new recording, dedicated to the Venetian nobleman Vincenzo Fini, have come down to us in handwritten copies.

The two-movement ‘Spinola’ sonatas are lively and imaginative enough, but it is in the Fini sonatas that a kinship with Turrini’s contemporary Beethoven becomes evident. These works far transcend their galant context, and could equally well be performed on the fortepiano, composed as they were on the cusp of keyboardinstrument history. The style that one contemporary described as ‘dolce patetico’ (‘sweet and full of feeling’) is particularly evident in the intensity of the slow movements: for instance, in the ‘Adagio ad imitazione del Violoncello’ of the Sonata No.5.

Michele Barchi is an experienced earlymusic keyboard musician who has worked with the likes of the late Claudio Abbado and with Riccardo Muti. Among his recordings is a contribution to the compendious ‘Bach 2000’ edition issued by Warner Classics. This album marks his debut on Brilliant Classics.

Turrini: 12 Sonatas for Harpsichord

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