Lorenzo Micheli posted recently an outstanding video playing a Passacaglia by Ludovico Roncalli, bringing its tone to life with a lovely baroque guitar made by Stephen Murphy after Stradivari’s “Oxford” guitar.
This Passacaglia is part of a collection of suites for baroque guitar - Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola (1692). I'll leave you with the words of the Maestro Micheli:
In 1692, Count Ludovico Roncalli from Bergamo published his “Capricci armonici”, the most extraordinary Italian 17th century book of guitar music. Four years earlier, in 1688, Antonio Stradivari from Cremona had built his earliest extant guitar, now owned by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Stradivari and Roncalli spent their almost entire life just 70 kilometers apart. It is not unlikely that they met.
Do not miss the opportunity to visit Micheli's fenomenal Youtube channel, where this video was retrieved from!
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