The Monteverdi Organ

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.