Merulo - Il Primo Libro de ricercari
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96204
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 17th September 2021
Contents
Artists
Francesco Tasini (organ)About
In 1574 Merulo published Il primo libro de ricercari da cantare, a qvattro voci in four separate vocal part-books (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), and for this album Francesco Tasini has aptly scored, intabulated, adapted and diminished the Ricercari for performance on the organ. Out of respect for Merulo’s original, Tasini’s diminution of the 19 Ricercari of the Libro primo always retains each part as it appeared, deliberately abstaining from any temporary suspension of a line which could be brought about in order to give space to the coloratura of another part.
The process of diminution is not limited to the ‘filling in’ of long note durations with passages of short notes; it also includes a rhetorical game enacted between the parts through syncopes, delayed entrances, changes of register, slurs and various echo and other effects to achieve an underlying lively discourse, as well as arpeggio effects typical of organ practice which Tasini has modelled on numerous passages found in Merulo’s two books of Toccate. The addition of coloratura highlights and brings out the formal division within each ricercare and, in addition to the cadences, establishes a different application for each new subject, so as to enhance its distinctive features.
Francesco Tasini has published numerous publications and critical reviews of Italian keyboard works from the 17th and 18th centuries. He is the author of numerous essays on performance practice and organology and is the winner of a number of composition competitions. His discography includes a great number of CDs and will feature the cycle of complete works for organ by Merulo, of which this album is the latest instalment.
Recorded in August 2020 at the Graziadio Antegnati organ (1565) of the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua, Italy
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