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Brilliant Classics

Bariolla: Ricercate for Organ / Manfrè

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Details

Composer
Ottavio Bariolla
Artist
Silva Manfre
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 22, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96376
UPC
5028421963761

About

‘Ottavio Bariola represented absolute musical perfection. The organs of the [church of] Madonna di San Celso are honoured to have passed through the hands of such an excellent performer. His listeners rejoiced while he pressed the keys, and the original way he moved up and down the keyboard provided an earthly imitation of the harmony of heaven.’ This rapturous description, provided by the abbot Filippo Piccinelli in his work L’Ateneo dei Letterati Milanesi (Milan, 1670), provides a good summary of all the biographical information available for the organist and composer Ottavio Bariolla. The organist and organ builder Costanzo Antegnati, son of the renowned Graziadio Antegnati who built the organ for the church of Santa Barbara in Mantua played on this recording, bears witness to the fact that Bariolla was still alive in 1608, naming him in his Arte Organica (Brescia, 1608) as one of the many ‘illustrious and most excellent composers’ that inspired him to write his treatise. The only copy currently known of Ottavio Bariolla’s Ricercate per sonar d’Organo (the original has been lost) is contained within the German organ tablature held in the Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino (Fondo Giordano 8). This tablature, which has been dated to between 1637 and 1640, was drawn up by scribes working in southern Germany and is the largest manuscript source of keyboard music, featuring an incredible 1770 compositions. Bariolla was one of the first composers in the prime of the ricercar to break away from monothematic composition, preferring to use multiple themes in his Ricercate and therefore pre-empting the direction taken by his successors, including Giovanni Maria Trabaci, the best-known composer of the Neapolitan school, and Girolamo Frescobaldi.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Ricercar primo 03:52
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ricercar primo
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  2. 2 Ricercar secondo 04:19
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ricercar secondo
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  3. 3 Ricercar terzo 04:58
    Track
    3
    Title
    Ricercar terzo
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  4. 4 Ricercar quarto 05:07
    Track
    4
    Title
    Ricercar quarto
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  5. 5 Ricercar quinto 05:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ricercar quinto
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  6. 6 Ricercar sesto 06:07
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ricercar sesto
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  7. 7 Ricercar settimo 03:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ricercar settimo
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  8. 8 Ricercar ottavo 05:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    Ricercar ottavo
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  9. 9 Ricercar nono 05:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ricercar nono
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  10. 10 Ricercar decimo 05:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    Ricercar decimo
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  11. 11 Ricercar undecimo 05:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    Ricercar undecimo
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè
  12. 12 Ricercar duodecimo et ultimo 05:10
    Track
    12
    Title
    Ricercar duodecimo et ultimo
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Ottavio Bariolla
    Performer
    Silva Manfrè