Laura Battilana (harpsichord) Fiori Musicali, magìa del clavicembalo

To quote the supplier 'Almost certainly a Neupert and nearly perfect pressing. This was published in mono, but that hardly matters when the instrument is recorded so closely'. This was confirmed by John Gavin in a comment: ' I’m sure the instrument is a Neupert Bach harpsichord'. Released RCA Italiana Victrola KV 123 Mono Texts by Laura Battilana Assistente Musicale: Claudio Fabi Tecnico della Registrazione: Gianni Fornari Tecnico del Re-recording: Mario Rosselli Realizzazione di Pasquale Santomartino Design: Corporazione Arti Grafiche, Roma Thanks to Robert Tifft the webmaster of the European Revival Harpsichordists ( https://jsebestyen.org/harpsichord/ ) for the LP-documentation and the cleaned up acoustic material to make this publication possible. For the translations, I used the free software Deep-L (translation from Italian to English) LATO 1 00:00 1. Daquin - Il Cuculo 02:02 2. Händel - Il Fabbro Armonioso 06:42 3. Zipoli - Pastorale 10:40 4. Rameau - Tambourin 11:53 5. D.Scarlatti - Sonata in Do maggiore (K 159) 6. J.S.Bach 13:38 a) Piccolo Preludio N. 1 in Do maggiore 14:51 b) Piccolo Preludio N. 3 in Do minore 16:23 7. Boccherini - Celebre Minuetto LATO 2 20:25 1. D.Scarlatti - Sonata in Mi maggiore (K 380) 2. J.S.Bach 24:50 Preludio e 27:10 fuga N. 1 (Dal Clavicembalo ben temperato. Val. 1°) 29:07 3. Rameau - La Dauphine 31:42 4. Anonimo - l'Usignolo 33:21 5. Paradisi - Toccata 35:25 6. Zipoli - Largo 37:59 7. Mozart - Marcia Turca Laura Battilana è una delle più giovani ed affermate artiste italiane. E' nata a Trieste nel 1944 e neHa città giuliana si è diplomata presso il Conservatorio di Stato Giuseppe Tartini nel 1963 in pianoforte e nel 1964 in clavicembalo, sempre cel massimo dei voti e lode. Ha suonato in tutte le maggiori città italiane e all'estero ha tenuto applauditissimi concerti ad Amburgo e a Bayreuth. Laura Battilana is one of the youngest and most established Italian artists. She was born in Trieste in 1944 and in the city of Trieste she graduated from the State Conservatory Giuseppe Tartini in 1963 in piano and in 1964 in harpsichord, always with top marks and honours. She has played in all major Italian cities and abroad. gave highly acclaimed concerts in Hamburg and Bayreuth. La nostra epoca inquieta, avida di conquiste tecniche e scientifiche è attratta, forse per contrappeso, dal fascino delle cose antiche e, parallelamente alla corsa verso il futuro, si rivolge al passato mettendo in luce, specie nella musica, il linguaggio ispirato a ciò che forse è eterno. Our restless age, greedy for technical and technical and scientific achievements is attracted, perhaps by counterbalance, by the fascination of ancient things and, in parallel with the race towards the future, turns to the past by highlighting especially in music, the language inspired by that which is perhaps eternal. The harpsichord of our times is no longer like those precious pieces of furniture used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, decorated and painted with stories and country scenes or with allegorical phrases. Today, this ancient and fascinating lte instrument is similar in appearance to the grand piano, but unlike the piano where the sound is derived from the percussion of hammers on the strings, the clavicembaolo is an instrument string plucked by means of a feather beak, usually feather crow's feather. It generally has two keyboards, while the pedals can be from two to six and have the function of registers, all to increase the richness of timbres and intensity, achieving sonorous sound variations that the piano cannot give; nor can it replace the olavichord as it has been used until now, if not by distorting the style and language itself. The harpsichord has a musical heritage stretching from the 1500s to the mid of the 1700s and includes gigantic composers some of whom are present in this evocative review of harpsichord music with their most beautiful and well-known compositions.