Girolamo Frescobaldi - TOCCATA PER L'ELEVAZIONE

In this video I play the Toccata per l'Elevazione from the "Messa degli Apostoli" (Fiori Musicali, Venezia 1635) by Girolamo Frescobaldi at my lovely little Hauptwerk Organ.
Whenever I play Frescobaldi I turn to a very specific sample set: Valvasone sampled by Sonus Paradisi with that spicy but lovely meantime temperament.

This organ is described on the Sonus Paradisi website as such:
“The organ consists of a single manual with an unusual (by today's standards) compass of 47 keys (FGA-f3) and a pull-down pedal of Italian style (FGA-d1). The stops form a typical Italian plenum composed of individual principal-scaled ranks. There is also a flute at 4' pitch. The organ has a tremulant, labeled "Fiffaro" under its switch. The organ is winded by three wedge bellows, and the wind pressure is 43 mm (water column measurement).The organ's pitch is 490 Hz at 18°C".

Frescobaldi's printed collections contain some of the most influential music of the 17th century and has influenced many, most notably J.S.Bach. His canonic liturgical organ music collection, Fiori musicali (1635) or “Musical Flowers”, were used as counterpoint models for many centuries.
This group of works is his only composition devoted to church music.
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