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The Organ of The Badia Fiorentina / Riboli
Brilliant Classics

The Organ of The Badia Fiorentina / Riboli

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Giovanna Riboli
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Aug 28, 2020
Catalog #
BRI95957
UPC
5028421959573

About

The organ of the Badia Fiorentina monastery in the centre of Florence is one of the finest surviving examples of an Italian renaissance organ, completed in 1558 by the Tuscan organ builder Onofrio Zeffirini. The characteristically Italian timbre of the organ and its historical temperament make it the perfect instrument for performing repertoire from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In her own booklet-note introduction to the repertoire on this album, Giovanna Riboli explains that she has chosen a sequence of repertoire to display the organ at its most characteristic, but also to give a guided tour to high-points of European organ music of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She opens her recital with a pair of toccatas, by the Venetian Gabrieli and the Florentine Frescobaldi, that give voice to the instrument’s most brilliant registers. A variation set by Pasquini enables her to range over the impressive stop-list including rarities such as a Nightingale stop. There are two representatives of the English keyboard school, Byrd and Farnaby, at their most extrovert and virtuosic, and then two substantial pieces by the founder of the North German organ school, Sweelinck, followed by an ‘English masquerade’ by his pupil Scheidemann. Giovanna Riboli rounds off this imaginatively programmed album in reflective mode with the Tiento y discurso de segundo tono by the Spanish composer and organist Francisco Correa de Arauxo. The album’s expressive journey is astutely planned, and her playing of this historic instrument brings out all its antique tone- colors.

 

REVIEW:

 

This disc, another in the series that Brilliant Classics is devoting to Italian organs and organ music, upholds the high standards of preceding entries for Renaissance and Baroque music. Giovanni Riboli is the skilled executant on this Cook’s tour of 16th- and early 17th-century Western European organ repertoire. The instrument is rather closely recorded, but sounds well. The English-Italian booklet provides detailed notes by Riboli on the organ and the composers, including specifications, along with an artist bio and photos. This is an attractive recital disc, and recommended accordingly.

 

– Fanfare

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata e Ricercare del secondo tono (from Il Transilvano) 02:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata e Ricercare del secondo tono (from Il Transilvano)
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  2. 2 Partite sopra l'aria di Fiorenza 04:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    Partite sopra l'aria di Fiorenza
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  3. 3 Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2: Toccata nona, "Non senza fatiga si giunge al fine" 05:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2: Toccata nona, "Non senza fatiga si giunge al fine"
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  4. 4 Variationi capricciose 07:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variationi capricciose
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  5. 5 Fantasia in A Minor (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, No. 13) 08:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    Fantasia in A Minor (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, No. 13)
    Duration
    08:31
    Composer
    William Byrd
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  6. 6 Mal Sims (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) 04:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    Mal Sims (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Giles Farnaby
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  7. 7 Fantasia g1, SwWV 270 11:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    Fantasia g1, SwWV 270
    Duration
    11:36
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  8. 8 Pavana Lachrimae 06:12
    Track
    8
    Title
    Pavana Lachrimae
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  9. 9 Englische Mascarada oder Judentanz in G Minor, WV 108 04:35
    Track
    9
    Title
    Englische Mascarada oder Judentanz in G Minor, WV 108
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Heinrich Scheidemann
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli
  10. 10 Libro de tientos y discursos de musica practica, y theorica de organo: No. 2. Tiento y discurso de segundo tono 05:58
    Track
    10
    Title
    Libro de tientos y discursos de musica practica, y theorica de organo: No. 2. Tiento y discurso de segundo tono
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Francisco Corrêa de Arauxo
    Performer
    Giovanna Riboli