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Francesco Cera
12+ albums
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Born: Bologna, Italy The Italian harpsichordist and organist, Francesco Cera, studied organ and harpsichord under Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and later with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Francesco Cera is now one of Italy’s leading early music specialists, and is greatly admired both as a performer and for his extensive knowledge of styles and different musical expressions. His distinctive interpretation can be heard not only in his approach to keyboard instruments, but also in Baroque vocal and instrumental music. He has performed as a soloist in important international festivals and on historical organs through out the whole of Europe (Bologna Festival, Musica e Poesia in San Maurizio in Milan, Flanders Festival in Gent and Bruges, Bach Tage Berlin, Saint Michel en Thierrache, Les Gouts Reunis Lausanne, Musica Transalpina in London). Francesco Cera is particularly well-known for his performances of 17th century harpsichord and organ music. His recording of the complete works of Michelangelo Rossi, Tarquinio Merula, Bernardo Storace and Antonio Valente (Tactus), was highly acclaimed by some of the most important music magazines such as Goldberg, Amadeus, Répertoire and Diapason. His audacious interpretation of the Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas brings out their innovative rhetorical and dramatic character, as well as their brilliance. Cera has recorded three CD's of these Sonatas from the manuscript dated 1742, and took part in the performance of the complet
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II - ADagio: Cembalo Concerto BWV 1052 in D Minor
1542III - Allegro: Cembalo Concerto BWV 1052 in D Minor
1533I - Allegro: Cembalo Concerto BWV 1052 in D Minor
1514Suite III in B Minor BWV 814: Menuet / Trio
605Sonata 36: Allegro
326Sonata XXV: Allegro (la minore K.36)
237Sonata XXVII: Allegro (fa maggiore K.38)
238Sonata XVII: Allegro (fa maggiore K.59)
199I - [Allegro]: Cembalo Concerto BWV 1054 in D Major
1810Sonata XIX: sol minore K.60
16albums
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cembalo Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suites, Italian Concerto - Fantasia and Fugue
Scarlatti: Sonate Per Cembalo - Parte Seconda
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonate per Cembalo Parte Terza
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Frescobaldi: Toccate - Capricci - Fiori Musicali
The Organ at European Courts
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Domenico Scarlatti : Sonate per cembalo
Brunnenthal 1715 - Music for Organ & Cornetto
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Saint-Saens: Requiem / Partsongs
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Rome Baroque - De Pasquini à Haendel (orgue G. Gugliemi de l'église Santa Maria in Vallicella à Rome)
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Finest Music Selection: Harpsichord
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Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suites, Italian Concerto, Fantasia and Fugue