Frescobaldi: Toccatas et danses

Thanks to his extraordinary compositional inventiveness, supreme virtuosity and to the technical innovations in harpsichord-manufacturing in the late Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Frescobaldi enabled keyboard music to make a giant leap. Frescobaldi’s art, with its unusual and always surprising ornaments and traits, was very dear to the heart of Scott Ross who dedicated the very last recording of his life to large selections from the books of toccate, partite, canzoni, gagliarde…