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

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Details

Composer
MERULO, CLAUDIO
Artist
Francesco Tasini
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 24, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96204
UPC
5028421962047

About

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.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 Ricercar primo 15:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ricercar primo
    Duration
    15:13
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  2. 2 Ricercar secondo 07:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ricercar secondo
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  3. 3 Ricercar terzo 12:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Ricercar terzo
    Duration
    12:18
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  4. 4 Ricercar quinto 16:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    Ricercar quinto
    Duration
    16:23
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  5. 5 Ricercar sesto 10:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ricercar sesto
    Duration
    10:59
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  6. 6 Ricercar septimo 11:47
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ricercar septimo
    Duration
    11:47
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  7. 7 Ricercar octavo 07:49
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ricercar octavo
    Duration
    07:49
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  8. 8 Ricercar nono 13:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    Ricercar nono
    Duration
    13:01
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  9. 9 Ricercar decimo 14:09
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ricercar decimo
    Duration
    14:09
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  10. 10 Ricercar undecimo 06:57
    Track
    10
    Title
    Ricercar undecimo
    Duration
    06:57
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  11. 11 Ricercar duodecimo 17:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    Ricercar duodecimo
    Duration
    17:44
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  12. 12 Ricercar terzodecimo 09:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Ricercar terzodecimo
    Duration
    09:39
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  13. 13 Ricercar quartodecimo 08:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    Ricercar quartodecimo
    Duration
    08:26
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  14. 14 Ricercar quintodecimo 14:50
    Track
    14
    Title
    Ricercar quintodecimo
    Duration
    14:50
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  15. 15 Ricercar sestodecimo 07:19
    Track
    15
    Title
    Ricercar sestodecimo
    Duration
    07:19
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  16. 16 Ricercar septimodecimo 08:47
    Track
    16
    Title
    Ricercar septimodecimo
    Duration
    08:47
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  17. 17 Ricercar octavodecimo 14:48
    Track
    17
    Title
    Ricercar octavodecimo
    Duration
    14:48
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  18. 18 Ricercar nonodecimo 10:33
    Track
    18
    Title
    Ricercar nonodecimo
    Duration
    10:33
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini
  19. 19 Ricercar vigesimo 16:58
    Track
    19
    Title
    Ricercar vigesimo
    Duration
    16:58
    Composer
    Claudio Merulo
    Performer
    Francesco Tasini