Some of the greatest works ever composed were conceived for and inspired by keyboard instruments. Today, however, the splendor of the canonical works for keyboard instruments composed after 1600 - Bach's Preludes and Fugues, Beethoven's Sonatas and Chopin's Nocturnes - tends to overshadow works composed earlier, despite there being a rich history of repertoire and a variety of instruments at that earlier time. Corina Marti here not only explores the earliest keyboard music to be composed in Europe but also provides a fascinating insight into a world of virtuoso players and the music composed for them, playing a selection of instruments that are hardly known today: a metal-stringed clavisimbalum (an early form of harpsichord), an upright gut-stringed claviciterium, two organetti (portative organs) of different sizes, and the church organ in Altenbruch in northern Germany with it's array of original pipes that date from the fifteenth century.

Tracklist:

Descendit de celis
Danse real (from Chansonnier du Roi)
Domino
Tribum quem non abhoruit (after Philippe de Vitry) (from the Robertsbridge Codex)
Chose Tassin
Kyrie ('Cunctipotens genitor Deus') (from Codex Faenza)
Ave maris stella (from Codex Faenza)
Kyrie Ang[e]licum (from the Buxheimer Orgelbuch)
Redeuntes in mi (from the Buxheimer Orgelbuch)
Mit ganczem Willen wÃ¼nsch ich dir (from the Lochamer Liederbuch)
Humble PitiÃ©
Praeambulum super d a f et g (from Tabulature of Adam Ileborgh)
[A piece without title]
Stella pia
Molendinum de Paris
Benedicamus Domino (from Codex Faenza)
Gloria, intabulation (ff. 90r-92v) ~Amen (from Codex Faenza)
Io me son uno che per la frasche (from Codex Faenza)
Deh come dolcemente m'abbracciava
Se la vista soave
Per larghi prati e per gran boschi folti
Cantano gl'angiolieti Sanctus
Benedicamus: Sane per omnia (from Codex Las Huelgas)
Benedicamus

UPC: 4250128519168
Label: Ramee
Release Date: 7.9.21
Format: CD

Keynotes / Various - Keynotes (CD)