F Couperin - Les Regrets ou L’art de la Melancolie
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Label: Dynamic
Cat No: CDS7879
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th February 2021
Contents
Works
L'Art de toucher le clavecinArtists
Stefano Lorenzetti (harpsichord)Works
L'Art de toucher le clavecinArtists
Stefano Lorenzetti (harpsichord)About
“I have spent many years of my life with François Couperin’s music, in particular with the eight preludes of L’art de toucher le clavecin…because they seem to me an ideal testimony of that particularly suggestive phrase of his, which more or less recites, ‘If there is great distance between grammar and declamation, there is infinite distance between written music and a good performance.’ This is difficult music, extremely fragile, very subtle, which requires putting into practice the old precept ‘Ars est celare artem’ – art consists in concealing art – in the almost obsessive search for the naturalness, in conveying and feeling, that is what this music calls for especially, in my opinion.” – Stefano Lorenzetti
Stefano Lorenzetti studied organ and harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert, while earning, at the same time, a PhD at the Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze. His double vocation of musician and musicologist has led him to explore forgotten performance practices, which he then used in recordings dedicated to the works of Giovanni Paolo Cima, Gerolamo Malvezzi, Giovanni della Casa, Ludovico Balbi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Domenico Cimarosa, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray etc., recordings that have received the praise of international critics. His monograph Musica e identità nobiliare nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Olschki 2001) has consecrated him as one of today’s most significant and innovative scholars of Renaissance music.
Lorenzetti has published over forty essays, the most recent ones of which are dedicated to the relationship between 16th- and 17th-century music and the art of memory, a subject on which he is writing a monograph. He has held concerts, conventions and lectures all over Europe and in the US, in particular at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, festival O flos colendae of the Opera di Santa Maria del fiore in Florence, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, University of California, Davis (Valente lectures), Harvard University and Stanford University (Ron Alexander Lectures). Early Music Review defined his latest recording of organ music by Giovanni Gabrieli “a masterclass in timing; he judges notated spread chords with very great subtlety”. Lorenzetti teaches at the Conservatory of Vicenza and the Corsi internazionali di perfezionamento musicale di Chiusi della Verna. He is a former fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in the City of New York.
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