I. DOCUMNETARY

II. MUSICAL PERFORMANCES:
Giovanni Maria Trabaci:
Ricercar del nono tono con tre fughe

Marchetto Cara:
Cantai mentre nel cor

Girolamo Frescobaldi:
Passacagli

Bernardo Storace:
Aria sopra la Spagnoletta

Fabrizio Caroso:
Celeste giglio

Johann Jacob Froberger:
Lamento sopra la dolorosa Perdita della Real Maesta di Ferdinando IV, Re de Romani

John Dowland/William Byrd:
Pavana Lachrymae

Jean-Francois Dandrieu:
La Gémissante

Bernardo Pasquini:
Arpeggio in C
Tastata in C
Sonata a due cembali III - [Allegro]
Aria in C

Domenico Scarlatti:
Sonata in D Minor, K 42 - Minuetto
Minuetto in B flat Major, K 77

Giovanni Marco Rutini:
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 3/4 - Tempo di Minuetto
Divertimenti facili e brevi per cimbalo a quattro mani, Op. 18/7 - L'Afflitto, Andante (Siciliana)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach:
Sonata III in B Minor - Allegretto
Quattro piccoli Duetti, Wotq 115 - No. 4, Allegro

Venanzio Rauzzini:
Duetto, Op. 12/2 - Rondo

Franz Schubert:
Impromptu, Op. 142/2
Moment musical, Op. 94/3

Carl Georg Lickl:
Rondo in E flat Major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Adagio für Glasharmonika, KV 356
Zauberflöte - Aria dello "strumento d'acciaio"

Robert Schumann:
Waldszenen, Op. 82 - Einsame Blumen

Johannes Brahms:
Intermezzo, Op. 117/3

Dmitri Shostakovich:
Jazz Suite II - Valzer

Charles Gounod:
Faust - Valzer

La sguizera
Ballo di Mantova
Variazioni sopra Ballo di Mantova
Bergamasca
Hoime che la non mi vole
"assolo di maranzanu"
Tarantella catanese
Polka

The guide on this visit is none other than Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini himself, who presents the various instruments, describes their characteristics in terms of both technology and sound, and recounts the often adventurous events connected to them. The collection is dominated by keyboard instruments covering a period of almost five centuries: organs, harpsichords, spinets, clavichords, historical pianos, singular and curious instruments such as a "sewing-box piano'', a "glasschord piano'', a "tuning-fork piano'', a "metallaphone'', a "physharmonica'' with free metal reeds, and a completely unique instrument combining a harpsichord and piano (built in Florence by Giovanni Ferrini in 1746). In addition to the guided visit through the collection, which is divided into different sections, the DVD presents performances of many musical compositions from various centuries and played on instruments dating from the same periodsas the works.

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Format: PAL, Audio: IT/EN, Runtime: 160 min