IL VIAGGIO DI LUCREZIA
Harp music in 17th-century Italy

Fabrizio Dentice (1539-1581)
1 Fantasia
2 Gagliarda Bella

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545-1607)
3 Toccata del Quarto Tono

Giovan Leonardo dell’Arpa (1525-1602)
4 Lucretia Gentil

Ascanio Mayone (?-1627)
5 Toccata Quarta

Anonymous (17th century)
6 Toccata

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1640)
7 Ch’i t’ami

Pietro Paolo Raimondo (?-?)
8 Cassandra

Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647)
9 Toccata seconda, & ligature per l’Arpa
10 Partite artificiose sopra il tenore di Zefiro

Ascanio Mayone
11 Recercare sopra il canto fermo di Costantio

Giovanni Maria Trabaci
12 Ancidetemi pur, per l’Arpa

Jeronimus Kapsberger (1580-1643)
13 Toccata Secondo Arpeggiata

Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
14 Toccata Sesta
15 Partite variate sopra quest’aria francesa detta l’Allemana
16 Corrente Sesta sopra l’Allemana
17 Chiaccona in partite varie

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
18 Toccata Ottava
19 Pasagalli

Anonymous (17th century)
20 Son fonte e fiumi
21 Canzone
22 Dalla Porta d’Oriente

Michelagnolo Galilei (1575-1631)
23 Toccata Seconda

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About this CD

Mara Galassi is active as a soloist (on a variety of instruments, from the Gothic harp, to Renaissance harps with brays to double and triple row instruments) and has worked with many of the best ensembles in the European early music field. As musicologist Mara Galassi has carried out extensive research in the field of historical harps: Her first solo recording on Glossa was Il Viaggio di Lucrezia, now reissued on Glossa Cabinet, a historical fantasy based on the travels of harpist Lucretia Urbana between 1584 and 1615 and featuring the music from Galassi’s beloved Italian 17th century with composers active in Italy at the time and played on an arpa doppia.