Another Kind of Rossi

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Label
Stradivarius
Release Date
February 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Maurizio Cazzati, Tarquinio Merula, Michelangelo Rossi
    • PERFORMER
      Arparla, Davide Monti, Maria Christina Cleary
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2025
    • UPC
      8011570373250
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      STR37325
    • LABEL
      Stradivarius
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Baroque Era
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccate e correnti: Toccata No. 3 (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    2. Motetti e sonate concertati, Book 1, Op. 6: Sonata No. 2

      Composer: Tarquinio Merula

      Ensemble: Arparla

    3. Toccate e correnti: Toccata No. 2 (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    4. Toccata in D Minor (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    5. Toccata No. 4

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    6. Toccata No. 1

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    7. Altra toccata in A Minor (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    8. Motetti e sonate concertati, Book 1, Op. 6: Sonata No. 1

      Composer: Tarquinio Merula

      Ensemble: Arparla

    9. Partite sopra la romanesca (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    10. Toccata No. 10

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    11. Toccata No. 8

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    12. Toccata in F Major (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    13. Toccate e correnti: Toccata No. 5 (arr. for arpa doppia)

      Composer: Michelangelo Rossi

      Performer: Maria Christina Cleary

    14. Il secondo libro delle sonate, Op. 8: No. 3. La Pezzola

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Ensemble: Arparla


What if Michelangelo Rossi's keyboard Toccatas had been played by harpists in Rome 400 years ago? Of all the 17th-century Italian keyboard repertoire I have attempted to play over the last thirty years, I find the Toccatas by Rossi to be by far the most organic, idiomatic and intuitive music to play on the arpa doppia, the chromatic triple-row Baroque harp of seventeenth-century Europe. At least ten harpists are known to have been active in Rome during this time, and archives are full of documents and correspondence that detail performances, commissions for instruments, purchases of strings, harp covers and cases, and other fascinating information, which together create an idea of the wealth of music and culture before and during the reign of Pope Urban VIII.