Cristofori Piano: “Lascia Ch'io Panga” by George Frideric Handel | Met Music

Anthony Roth Costanzo @anthonyrothcostanzo3042 (vocals) and Bryan Wagorn (piano) perform “Lascia Ch'io Panga” by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) on the earliest known surviving piano, made by the instrument’s inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), in Florence in 1720.

This piano is on view in the Musical Instruments Galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Contributors

Video editor: Christopher Shurtleff
Sound Recording and Post-Production Audio: Gregory Chang

Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments:
Frederick P. Rose Curator-in-Charge: Jayson Kerr Dobney
Curator: Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
Conservator: Manu Frederickx
Principal Departmental Technician: Tim Caster
Programs Coordinator: Pamela Summey
Associate Administrator: Nicole Sussmane


Detail shot of the keys of the Cristofori Piano
Audio
How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord.
Jayson Kerr Dobney and Anthony Roth Costanzo
September 7, 2022
Phenomenon by Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
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Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
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Grand Piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori  Italian, Cypress, boxwood, paint, leather, fir, Italian (Florence)
Bartolomeo Cristofori
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