Girolamo Frescobaldi - Art of Frescobaldi - Gustav Leonhardt

From Frescobaldi's collections published between 1615 and 1637 Gustav Leonhardt has chosen ten works illustrating six of the classes of composition Frescobaldi cultivated: four toccatas, two partitas, a canzona, a ricercar, a Magnificat, and a capriccio. He performs six pieces on the organ and the other four on the harpsichord.
Leonhardt shows himself here to be a superb musician, both technically and temperamentally. He has taken almost infinite pains to achieve convincing and appropriate phrasing and articulation. When the music should be slow, he plays it slowly; but when it should not, he usually adopts very brisk tempos.