Tinazzoli: Complete Keyboard Works

This collection of Tinazzoli’s keyboard music employs a wide range of styles and formal structures: we have concerto-like pieces (Toccata , Sonata no. 4), as well as fugato pieces (Sonata ), and dance movements (the Sarabanda in Sonata No.4). Composer: Agostino Tinazzoli Artists: Simone Pierini (harpsichord & organ) 🎵 Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music): 💎 More Information: 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in films, tv-shows, games and more. For more information and to request a license go to: The pieces presented here are ascribed to a composer whose life appears to be both mysterious and adventurous at the same time: little of Agostino Tinazzoli (ca 1660-1725) is known, as concerns biographical details such as his living places, his teachers, and the job positions he held. However, some unusual facts preserved through his music make clear that this composer probably had no ordinary life: during his stay in Rome he probably committed, or was involved, in an unspecified crime: for this reason, he got incarcerated in Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, which during Tinazzoli’s time was partly used as a city jail. Here he continued to compose: his cantata “In Carcere penoso” was written with carbon on the prison wall, and its beauty prompted his immediate release from jail. This collection of solo keyboard music comes from two manuscripts currently preserved in Münster and Bologna. The former contains all the pieces included in the two CDs, while the latter includes Toccata and a larger version of the Toccata including all the movements performed (the Münster manuscript contains only the first movement). Four of the pieces of the collection are specified for the organ, and they are intended to be used during the Mass: there are two Offertorios, one Elevazione and a Post Agnus, and all of them are titled Sonata. Tinazzoli assigns the terms Sonata, Toccata, and Capriccio to these pieces (except for the Passagallo), but there is seemingly no criteria for the choice of name. The collection employs a wide range of styles and formal structures: there are concerto-like pieces (Toccata , Sonata no.4), as well as fugato pieces (Sonata ), and dance movements (for example, the Sarabanda in Sonata No.4, or the concluding Minuetto in Capriccio No.3). While we are unable to determine a precise timeframe of composition, it seems that even if the pieces may have been composed in disparate years Tinazzoli remained well informed throughout his career about the stylistic developments occurring in Italy and Europe in his day: the organ pieces, for example, adhere to the late-18th-century style, which was fundamentally more operatic. The most important feature of these pieces, however, is the pervasive employment of basso continuo: the pieces are almost constantly notated in two voices (treble and bass) but with figured bass numerals throughout. In this collection, Pierini has employed basso continuo and improvisation features in the most stylistically appropriate way, considering the wide range of styles included. Tracklist: Toccata No. 17: 0:00:00 I. Allegro 0:04:04 II. Grave. Arpeggio – Prestissimo – Adagio 0:05:54 III. Affettuoso Toccata No. 18: 0:07:28 I. Allegro 0:11:18 II. Suo balletto 0:12:34 Sonata No. 12: I. Eelevatione. Adagio Capriccio No. 3: 0:17:59 I. Presto 0:21:16 II. Adagio 0:22:17 III. Minuet. Allegro 0:24:00 Toccata No. 6: I. Allegro 0:26:32 Capriccio No. 16: I. Allegro 0:28:45 Capriccio No. 7: I. Allegro 0:33:10 Sonata No. 5: I. Offertorio Capriccio No. 14: 0:37:20 I. Allegro 0:40:38 II. Adagio – Allegro 0:42:40 Capriccio No. 9: I. Allegro 0:45:02 Capriccio No. 10: I. Allegro 0:47:13 Sonata No. 13: I. Post agnus. Allegro Sonata No. 4: 0:51:09 I. Allegro 0:54:30 II. Sarabanda 0:56:44 III. Allegro 0:59:30 Sonata No. 2: I. Allegro 1:02:43 Partite sopra il passagallo 1:10:34 Sonata No. 11: I. Offertorio. Allegro 1:15:12 Sonata No. 8: I. Allegro Sonata No. 1: 1:18:59 I. Adagio 1:20:26 II. Allegro 1:23:08 III. Largo 1:23:55 IV. Prestissimo arpeggiato – Adagio 1:25:03 V. Allegro 1:27:26 Capriccio No. 15: I. Allegro 👉 Social media links: Instagram: Facebook: TikTok: Spotify: Thank you for watching this video, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to like and share the video and subscribe to our channel. And visit our channel for more of the greatest composers. We upload daily with complete albums and compilations with the best classical music. #Tinazzoli #Keyboard #Works #Complete #Harpsichord #Organ #ClassicalMusic #BrilliantClassics