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Speth: Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni for Organ / Butterin, Minali
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Speth: Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni for Organ / Butterin, Minali

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Composer
Johann Speth
Artist
Chiara Minali, Letizia Butterin
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 27, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96097
UPC
5028421960975

About

The music of Johann Speth (1664-1719) has featured here and there on many compilations of instrumental music from mid-17th century Germany. However, until now there has never been a complete recording of the sole collection which carries his name down to us today. Published in 1693, this volume of keyboard toccatas, partitas and Magnificats takes its title from an influential treatise on the science and aesthetics of music from 1650 by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. Kircher attempted to show how the balance of dissonance with consonance in harmony mirrored the presence of good and evil in the universe. There is in turn something attractively compendious about Speth’s musical response, which Speth appears to have produced as a bona fide for his successful application to become organist of the cathedral in Augsburg. Very little is known of his life until that point in 1692, and not much after, save that in 1719 he was still living and active in the city which at the time was politically significant and prosperous as a seat of the Hapsburgs Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni opens with a sequence of 10 toccatas, quite brief and owing something to the influence of contemporary southern German composers such as Georg Muffat and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. There follows the more Italianate strains of three ‘partitas.’ The remainder of Speth’s collection synthesizes Italian and German styles in eight Magnficats. Each of the Magnificats takes its tonal base – the equivalent of its key signature – from a different musical mode, each starting on their own note. The collection as a whole adds up to a colorful snapshot of the invention and variety of German keyboard music beyond Bach, and as a notable predecessor to the compendious ambitions of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata prima oder Erstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 05:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata prima oder Erstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  2. 2 Toccata secunda oder Zweytes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 05:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    Toccata secunda oder Zweytes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  3. 3 Toccata tertia oder Drites Musicalisches Blumen Feld 03:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    Toccata tertia oder Drites Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  4. 4 Toccata quarta oder Viertes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 03:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    Toccata quarta oder Viertes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  5. 5 Toccata quinta oder Fünfftes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 02:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    Toccata quinta oder Fünfftes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  6. 6 Toccata sexta oder Sechstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 04:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    Toccata sexta oder Sechstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  7. 7 Toccata septima oder Sibendtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 02:33
    Track
    7
    Title
    Toccata septima oder Sibendtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  8. 8 Toccata octava oder Achtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 03:03
    Track
    8
    Title
    Toccata octava oder Achtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  9. 9 Toccata nona oder Neundtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 02:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    Toccata nona oder Neundtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  10. 10 Toccata decima et ultima oder Zehendes Musicalisches Blumen Feld 03:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    Toccata decima et ultima oder Zehendes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  11. 11 Partite diverse sopra l'aria detta la Todesca 07:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    Partite diverse sopra l'aria detta la Todesca
    Duration
    07:35
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  12. 12 Partite diverse sopra l'aria detta la Pasquina 06:01
    Track
    12
    Title
    Partite diverse sopra l'aria detta la Pasquina
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  13. 13 Partite diverse sopra la Spagnioletta 06:59
    Track
    13
    Title
    Partite diverse sopra la Spagnioletta
    Duration
    06:59
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Chiara Minali
  14. 14 Magnificat primi toni 07:27
    Track
    14
    Title
    Magnificat primi toni
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  15. 15 Magnificat secundi toni 06:01
    Track
    15
    Title
    Magnificat secundi toni
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  16. 16 Magnificat tertii toni 07:10
    Track
    16
    Title
    Magnificat tertii toni
    Duration
    07:10
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  17. 17 Magnificat quarti toni 06:51
    Track
    17
    Title
    Magnificat quarti toni
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  18. 18 Magnificat quinti toni 07:14
    Track
    18
    Title
    Magnificat quinti toni
    Duration
    07:14
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  19. 19 Magnificat sexti toni 07:28
    Track
    19
    Title
    Magnificat sexti toni
    Duration
    07:28
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  20. 20 Magnificat septimi toni 06:45
    Track
    20
    Title
    Magnificat septimi toni
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali
  21. 21 Magnificat octavi toni 07:38
    Track
    21
    Title
    Magnificat octavi toni
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Johannes Speth
    Performer
    Letizia Butterin, Chiara Minali