Sprezzatura Nuova by Maksymilian Święch

Sprezzatura Nuova is the new album with italian harpsichord music. It’s refers to interdisciplinary project with the same title, witch premiered in 2017 in Cultural Centre Zamek in Poznań.

Sprezzatura Nuova is a difficult music. Both for the instrumentalist, and listener. It is the sound collection of extremes, dialogue of grace with contrast. The lirycal compositions are interspersed by virtuoso music. Sprezzatura Nuova is also a historical clash of tradition with progress, a confrontation of a certain indefinite, decent with indecent.

The program consists of keyboard compositions of artists from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries: Andrea Gabrieli, Antonio Valente, Girolamo Diruta, Claudio Merulo, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Picchi, Bernardo Storace and Tarquinio Merula.


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Track listing:
1. Andrea Gabrieli – Toccata del nono tono
2. Bernardo Storace – Ciaconna in C
3. Claudio Merulo – Toccata Nona del quarto tono (Libro Primo)
4. Tarquinio Merula – Sonata Cromatica
5. Girolamo Frescobaldi – Toccata Settima (Libro Secondo)
6. Girolamo Diruta – Ricercare a quattro voci
7. Giovanni Picchi – Ballo alla Polacca
8. Antonio Valente – Lo Ballo dell’Intorcia
9. Antonio Valente – Gagliarda Napolitana

The album was recorded in 2018 on a copy of Honforio Guarracino harpsichord, tuned in 1/4 comma meantone, a’=440Hz.

Total time: 39'.

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Musica Graciana debuted in 2018 by 'Pubblicato in Venezia' program. Ensamble consists of graduates of Music Schoold of Poznań, Wrocław, Koln and London. The most important goal of the band is the propagation of niche polish and italian early music.