Monteverdi: The Monteverdi Organ / Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 23, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FRESCOBALDI FROBERGER MERULA
    • PERFORMER
      Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 23, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421963471
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96347
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata No. 9 in C Major, FbWV 109

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    2. Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina III

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    3. Toccata No. 1 in A Minor, FbWV 101

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    4. Selva morale e spirituale: O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    5. Capriccio

      Composer: Tarquinio Merula

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    6. Selva morale e spirituale: Ab aeterno ordinata sum

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    7. Toccata cromaticha per le levatione

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    8. Fiori Musicali: Recercar con obbligo di cantar la V parte

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    9. Fiori Musicali: Canzon post il Comune

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    10. Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina II

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    11. Canzone seconda

      Composer: Tarquinio Merula

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    12. Selva morale e spirituale: Spuntava il di

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    13. Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    14. Selva morale e spirituale: Et iterum venturus est

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    15. Toccata No. 9, "Toccata nona"

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld

    16. Selva morale e spirituale: Laudate pueri Dominum II

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Le Nuove Musiche

      Performer: Krijn Koetsveld


This recording features a very special newly built organ, showcasing it in the roles in which its predecessors were used in their heyday at the turn of the 16th century. This particular type of organ, small in scale and with open pipes all made of Italian cypress wood, was one of which perhaps the most important composer of his time, Claudio Monteverdi, was particularly fond, and yet it’s practically nonexistent today. It was during Le Nuove Musiche’s great undertaking to record the complete cycle of Monteverdi’s Books of Madrigals that director Krijn Koetsveld began to feel the need for an organ capable of recreating the sound typical of that era. He explored possibilities for realizing such a project, and gradually the idea to reconstruct an organ befitting the Italian musical practice from around 1600 took shape. He approached the Netherlands’ Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds, and they embraced the idea, consulted organist Pieter van Dijk and awarded the organ building contract to Klop Orgelbouwers. No original organs from Monteverdi’s time have survived, and very few illustrations exist. But it was possible to reconstruct his beloved organo di legno (wood organ) on the basis of contemporary accounts, which describe, in addition to the open, wooden pipes, hand-operated bellows, creating a much lower wind pressure than that of modern organs. From Monteverdi’s instructions in the organo di legno part of his Vespers, such instruments are also known to have had several stops.