Merulo: Organ Music il primo libro de ricercari da cantare / Tasini

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 24, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MERULO, CLAUDIO
    • PERFORMER
      Francesco Tasini
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 24, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421962047
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96204
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ricercar primo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    2. Ricercar secondo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    3. Ricercar terzo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    4. Ricercar quinto

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    5. Ricercar sesto

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    6. Ricercar septimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    7. Ricercar octavo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    8. Ricercar nono

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    9. Ricercar decimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    10. Ricercar undecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    11. Ricercar duodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    12. Ricercar terzodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    13. Ricercar quartodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    14. Ricercar quintodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    15. Ricercar sestodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    16. Ricercar septimodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    17. Ricercar octavodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    18. Ricercar nonodecimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini

    19. Ricercar vigesimo

      Composer: Claudio Merulo

      Performer: Francesco Tasini


According to fellow organist and composer Costanzo Antegnati (1549–1624), Claudio Merulo (1533–1604) was famous for ‘the sweet way he played’. In the 16th century the term ‘sweetness’ was mainly related to the practice of ‘diminution’, or ornamentation, with skillfully executed passeggiando and a ‘judicious breaking up of the figures’, so that the application of the coloratura might confer a personal and lively chiaroscuro effect. 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.