On Early Music Francesco Tristano

• Francesco Tristano (b. 1981):
• 1 Tristano: Toccata 03:41
• 2 Tristano: On Bull Galliard in D 03:28
• Peter Philips (1560 - 1628):
• 3 Philips: Fantasy in D Minor 03:25
• Francesco Tristano:
• 4 Tristano: Serpentina 03:20
• John Bull (1562 - 1628):
• 5 Bull: Let ons met herten reijne 03:05
• Francesco Tristano:
• 6 Tristano: On Girolamo Frescobaldi's Quattro correnti 02:30
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643):
• 7 Frescobaldi: Aria la folia 05:59
• Francesco Tristano:
• 8 Tristano: Ritornello 03:47
• 9 Tristano: On Cristobal de Morales Circumdederunt 02:18
• Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625):
• 10 Gibbons: Pavan 04:05
• 11 Gibbons: Air & Alman 01:49
• 12 Gibbons: Italian Ground 02:22
• 13 Gibbons: Ground 02:37
• Francesco Tristano:
• 14 Tristano: Ciacona seconda 04:04
• Girolamo Frescobaldi:
• 15 Frescobaldi: Cento partite sopra passacaglie 08:55
• Francesco Tristano:
• 16 Tristano: Aria for RS 03:42
• Total Runtime 59:07

Info for On Early Music

"On Early Music", pianist Francesco Tristano's third release with Sony Classical will be out February 4, 2022. Interspersed with his original compositions are works by some of early music’s greatest English composers and organists – Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, and Peter Philips – and one of Tristano’s greatest inspirations, Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi. Yet, "On Early Music" is not merely a fitting homage to this repertoire; the works are given a fresh, contemporary twist thanks to Tristano’s production skills, studio mastery, and keen eye for detail. “I wanted works by English composers, some of whom I’ve played for a long time and love, but I also wanted to continue exploring the repertoire of Frescobaldi,” he says. “He really changed the way composers wrote for keyboards.” Inspired by these greats, and their enduring works, the music he wrote for On Early Music bursts with vitality and spark. All the works featured are tonally and melodically complimentary, and while some have been faithfully reproduced, others have been re-worked and reinterpreted. “I wanted to bring something new to them,” he says. “Something original.” That led him to works that reflected another of the album’s main themes, and something he wanted to focus on and bring to the fore – the gentle majesty of sunrise. “The magic hour is very short, but the energy unleashed is unique,” he says. “This moment is often paralleled in scores of early music – at a very specific moment toward the end of a given piece, it seems as if the score is wrapped up in a harmonic sequence that determines the end of a complex development, and transitions into a soothing ending. It is both the end, and a new beginning.”

Francesco Tristano, piano

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