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Johann Jacob Froberger, Libro quarto di toccata, ricercari, capricci allemande, gigue, courante, sarabande... (Vienna, 1656)
Webb Wiggins, harpsichord and organ
FoM 10-027.28
Webb Wiggins, a member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players since 1985, is associate professor of harpsichord at the Oberlin College Conservatory. He has long had a special affinity for the works of Froberger, who studied in Rome with Girolamo Frescobaldi, was organist to the Imperial Hapsburg court in Vienna, and strongly influenced the works of Louis Couperin and German keyboard composers through J.S. Bach. For this two-CD set, Wiggins uses two exceptional instruments, a harpsichord by Earl Russell and Mark Adler based on French 17th-century models, and the Fairchild Chapel (Oberlin) organ built by John Brombaugh, which was inspired by early 17th-century German instruments. Froberger’s often piquant harmonies speak with exceptional pungency in the quarter-comma meantone temperaments employed.
Listen to the Courante in A Minor from Suite IV
This two-disc set should help make Froberger's inventive music more widely known. Mr. Wiggins has a real affinity for this repertory. His sensitive control of articulation, deft handling of the quasi-improvisatory sections in the toccatas, and fine sense of flexible rhythmic nuances make this music from three centuries ago breathe and come alive.
– clevelandclassical.com
Price:
$20.00 + $2.98 shipping & handling
On this album:
Libro Quatro of 1656:
CD 1:
[1]–[6] Six Toccatas
[7]–[12] Six Ricercars
[13]–[18] Six Capriccios
CD 2:
[1] – [24] Six Suites