On Early Music

Francesco Tristano

The acclaimed pianist and composer Francesco Tristano, returns to his first love – early music for his new studio album  ‘On Early Music’. The album presents Renaissance and early-Baroque works with five of his own Baroque-inspired piano pieces. Interspersed with these 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.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.“Early music has a reparative power, just like an early sunrise,” he says, “and these works give me an uplifting feeling. There’s something really primitive about them, but something rejuvenating too.” For Tristano, this repertoire remains as joyful and inspiring as when it was composed over 500 years ago, and is thoroughly deserving of a contemporary audience.TRACKLIST:1. Toccata - Francesco Tristano2. On John Bull's Galliard In D - Francesco Tristano3. Fantasy In D – Peter Philips4. Serpentina - Francesco Tristano5. Let ons met herten reijne – John Bull6. On Girolamo Frescobaldi's Quattro correnti – Francesco Tristano7. Aria La folia – Giacomo Frescobaldi8. Ritornello – Francesco Tristano9. On Cristobal de Morales Circumdederunt – Francesco Tristano10. Pavan – Orlando Gibbons11. Air & Alman – Orlando Gibbons12. Italian Ground – Orlando Gibbons13. Ground – Orlando Gibbons14. Ciacona seconda - Francesco Tristano15. Cento partite sopra passacaglie - Giacomo Frescobaldi16. Aria for RS – Francesco Tristano