Speth - Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni: Music for Organ
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96097
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 13th May 2022
Contents
Works
Magnificat 1 toniMagnificat 2 toni
Magnificat 3 toni
Magnificat 4 toni
Magnificat 5 toni
Magnificat 6 toni
Magnificat 7 toni
Magnificat 8 toni
Partite diverse sopra l'aria la Pasquina
Partite diverse sopra l'aria la Todesca
Partite diverse sopra la Spagnioletta
Toccatas (10) 'Musicalisches Blumen Feld'
Artists
Chiara Minali (organ)Letizia Butterin (chant)
Works
Magnificat 1 toniMagnificat 2 toni
Magnificat 3 toni
Magnificat 4 toni
Magnificat 5 toni
Magnificat 6 toni
Magnificat 7 toni
Magnificat 8 toni
Partite diverse sopra l'aria la Pasquina
Partite diverse sopra l'aria la Todesca
Partite diverse sopra la Spagnioletta
Toccatas (10) 'Musicalisches Blumen Feld'
Artists
Chiara Minali (organ)Letizia Butterin (chant)
About
Kircher attempted to show how the balance of dissonance with consonance in harmony mirrored the presence of good and evil in the universe. There is in turn something attractively compendious about Speth’s musical response, which Speth appears to have produced as a bona fide for his successful application to become organist of the cathedral in Augsburg. Very little is known of his life until that point in 1692, and not much after, save that in 1719 he was still living and active in the city which at the time was politically significant and prosperous as a seat of the Hapsburgs.
Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni opens with a sequence of 10 toccatas, quite brief and owing something to the influence of contemporary southern German composers such as Georg Muffat and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. There follows the more Italianate strains of three ‘partitas’ – not dance suites but elaborations and variations on popular vocal melodies from the other side of the Alps.
The remainder of Speth’s collection synthesises Italian and German styles in eight Magnficats. These are composed in the alternatim genre, with a line of plainchant answered by a composed response to the following line and so on. Each of the Magnificats takes its tonal base – the equivalent of its key signature – from a different musical mode, each starting on their own note. The collection as a whole adds up to a colourful snapshot of the invention and variety of German keyboard music beyond Bach, and as a notable predecessor to the compendious ambitions of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Speth’s collection is played here on a modern reconstruction of a 1732 organ in the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta in the small northern Italian town of Cavalese. Chiara Minali’s musicianship has already been appreciated on several previous releases from Brilliant Classics, likewise focused on lesser-known names from the 17th and 18th centuries, including solo collections by Grazioli (95935) and Spergher (95834).
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