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Passacaglia
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer: Mahan Esfahani (Harpsichord)
Recording date: 23 September 2008
Date of broadcast: 24 December 2008
Frescobaldi was quite possibly the inventor of the passacaglia, a serious instrumental musical composition consisting of a series of variations usually on a ground bass in moderately slow triple time. Frescobaldi wrote many passacaglias and was instrumental in popularising the form.
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer: Mahan Esfahani (Harpsichord)
Recording date: 23 September 2008
Date of broadcast: 24 December 2008
