The name of Claudio Veggio (1510-1543) would hardly be known were it not for the survival of the Manoscritto di Castell'Arquato, one of the earliest and most important collections of Italian keyboard music from the first half of the 16th century. The manuscript's many ricercari, mass movements, Magnificats, motets, chansons, dances and madrigal intabulations are the work of composers almost forgotten today, but Scandali's performances on a historically fitting organ give Veggio's music a new lease of life. The six ricercari show strong affinities with the works in the same genre by the better-known Cavazzoni; his only other surviving work is a four-part harmonisation of a song, La fugitiva. Dating from the following generation, the Bari-born Rocco Rodio (c.1535-after 1615) enjoys marginally fuller representation on album, but this is still the first complete collection of his surviving work for organ, which is preserved by a Libro di Ricercate published in Naples in 1575. This volume is a historical landmark in it's own right, as the first known printed edition of instrumental music in open score. His vocal music was also published in Rome and Venice, but Rodio appears to have made his career in Naples, and these organ works share the extrovert quality and awareness of contemporary developments demonstrated by Neapolitan composers which would in due course come to make the city known as the 'conservatoire of Europe'. Our third composer is the Modenese composer Sperindio Bertoldo, born like Rodio around 1530 but dying considerably earlier, in 1570. The Brilliant Classics catalogue of Italian organ music is unrivalled in it's reach and depth; this is the label's second recording of Bertoldo's organ music after Manuel Tomadin's recent album (95874).

Tracklist:

Recercar del primo Tono
Recercada prima del primo tono per b molle
Recercar del quinto tono per b molle
fugitiva
Recercada per b quadro del quarto tono
Recercada per b mol del primo tono
Recercada per b quadro del primo Tono
Ricercata prima
[Fantasia sopra] Ave Maris Stella
Seconda ricercata
[Fantasia sopra] Salve Regina
Terza ricercata
[Fantasia sopra] La mi re fa mi re [La Spagna]
Quarta ricercata
[Fantasia sopra] Iste confessor
Quinta ricercata
Toc[c]ata prima
Ricercar del Primo Tuono
Hor vienza vien (Or vien Ã§a vien)
Ricercar del Terzo Tuono
Canzon Francese
gai berger
Petit fleur
Ricercar del Sesto Tuono
Frais e gagliard (Frisque et gaillard)
Toc[c]ata seconda

UPC: 5028421958040
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 6.25.21
Format: CD

Bertoldo / Scandali - Complete Organ Music (2pk) (CD)