B Storace - Complete Harpsichord & Organ Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95455
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 12th March 2021
Contents
Works
Altro passo e mezzoAria sopra la Spagnoletta
Balletto
Ballo della Battaglia
Capriccio sopra Ruggiero
Capriccio sopra il passo e mezzo
Ciaccona
Corrente (in E)
Corrente (in G)
Follia
Monica: variations for harpsichord
Partite sopra Il cinque Passi
Passagagli Fe fa ut per b
Passagagli sopra A la mi re
Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut per b
Passagagli sopra D sol re per #
Passamezzo
Pastorale
Recercar di ligature
Recercar
Romanesca
Toccata e Canzon (in F)
Toccata e Canzon (in G)
Artists
Enrico Viccardi (organ, harpsichord, spinet)Works
Altro passo e mezzoAria sopra la Spagnoletta
Balletto
Ballo della Battaglia
Capriccio sopra Ruggiero
Capriccio sopra il passo e mezzo
Ciaccona
Corrente (in E)
Corrente (in G)
Follia
Monica: variations for harpsichord
Partite sopra Il cinque Passi
Passagagli Fe fa ut per b
Passagagli sopra A la mi re
Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut per b
Passagagli sopra D sol re per #
Passamezzo
Pastorale
Recercar di ligature
Recercar
Romanesca
Toccata e Canzon (in F)
Toccata e Canzon (in G)
Artists
Enrico Viccardi (organ, harpsichord, spinet)About
While the work of Frescobaldi was surely not unknown to Storace, the later composer’s voice is individual and original. Taken in the round, the collection presents a ‘state of the art’ of keyboard music of the time. There are pieces such as passamezzi and ground-bass variations that adhere to a particular tradition and others that are more modern, with deliberate departures from established modes that embrace both a new tonal handling of harmony and echoes of a more antique and modal approach. Among the collection’s most novel features is its final piece, a long Pastorale with the flavour of a hornpipe, and the most ingeniously contrived repeated patterns and variations in texture and mood, all over a D pedal.
Another feature pointing to Storace’s originality is the use of tonalities, especially bearing in mind how the instruments would have been tuned. The first three pieces ascend in thirds (A major, C minor, E minor), the next two feature one key and its relative minor (the Romanesca in C major and the Spagnoletta in A minor), and then come the Monica in G minor and the Ruggiero in G major. The most remarkable juxtaposition is found in the two gems of the collection: the Passagagli fe fa ut per bi in F minor and the Ciaccona, composed in a luminous, lively C major.
To convey the varied colours and textures of Storace’s music for this new recording, Enrico Viccardi has chosen to play four different instruments: a harpsichord built as a copy of a Grimaldi, a spinet modelled on the Venetian instruments of the second half of the 17th century, a Neapolitan positive organ by F. Cimino with all original pipes (first half of the 18th century) and the historically significant organ at the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria della Neve at Gualtieri (RE).
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