The Monteverdi Organ
96347 (Brilliant Classics, CD)
NEW RELEASE (1 July 2021)
Tracks: 16
℗ 2021 Brilliant Classics
© 42021 Brilliant Classics
Main country of recording: Netherlands
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of The Monteverdi Organ published on 30 June 2021
Krijn Koetsveld, organ
Ensemble Le Nuove Musiche (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16)
Johann Jacob Froberger:
1 Toccata IX
Claudio Monteverdi:
2 Salve regina III
Johann Jacob Froberger:
3 Toccata I
Claudio Monteverdi:
4 O ciechi il tanto affaticar, SV 252
Tarquinio Merula:
5 Capriccio la loda
Claudio Monteverdi:
6 Ab aeterno ordinata sum, SV 262
Girolamo Frescobaldi:
7 Toccata cromaticha per l'elevazione, F 12.16
8 Recercar con obligo di cantare la quinta parte senza toccarla, F 12.44
9 Canzon post il commune, F 12.17
Claudio Monteverdi:
10 Salve regina II
Tarquinio Merula:
11 Canzone (II)
Claudio Monteverdi:
12 Spuntava il dì€, SV 255
Girolamo Frescobaldi:
13 Capriccio sopra la bassa fiamenga, F 4.05
Claudio Monteverdi:
14 Et iterum, SV 261
Girolamo Frescobaldi:
15 Toccata IX
Claudio Monteverdi:
16 Laudate pueri, SV 271
Recorded June and September 2020 in Hoogland (Utrecht), Netherlands.
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 sixteenth 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.