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Monteverdi: The Monteverdi Organ / Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche
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Monteverdi: The Monteverdi Organ / Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche

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Details

Composer
FRESCOBALDI FROBERGER MERULA
Artist
Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jul 23, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96347
UPC
5028421963471

About

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.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata No. 9 in C Major, FbWV 109 03:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata No. 9 in C Major, FbWV 109
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Johann Jacob Froberger
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  2. 2 Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina III 05:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina III
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  3. 3 Toccata No. 1 in A Minor, FbWV 101 04:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Toccata No. 1 in A Minor, FbWV 101
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Johann Jacob Froberger
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  4. 4 Selva morale e spirituale: O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova? 03:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  5. 5 Capriccio 03:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    Capriccio
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Tarquinio Merula
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  6. 6 Selva morale e spirituale: Ab aeterno ordinata sum 06:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Ab aeterno ordinata sum
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  7. 7 Toccata cromaticha per le levatione 03:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    Toccata cromaticha per le levatione
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  8. 8 Fiori Musicali: Recercar con obbligo di cantar la V parte 03:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fiori Musicali: Recercar con obbligo di cantar la V parte
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  9. 9 Fiori Musicali: Canzon post il Comune 03:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fiori Musicali: Canzon post il Comune
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  10. 10 Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina II 04:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina II
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  11. 11 Canzone seconda 03:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    Canzone seconda
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Tarquinio Merula
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  12. 12 Selva morale e spirituale: Spuntava il di 06:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Spuntava il di
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  13. 13 Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga 05:30
    Track
    13
    Title
    Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  14. 14 Selva morale e spirituale: Et iterum venturus est 01:20
    Track
    14
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Et iterum venturus est
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche
  15. 15 Toccata No. 9, "Toccata nona" 05:45
    Track
    15
    Title
    Toccata No. 9, "Toccata nona"
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
  16. 16 Selva morale e spirituale: Laudate pueri Dominum II 07:31
    Track
    16
    Title
    Selva morale e spirituale: Laudate pueri Dominum II
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Krijn Koetsveld
    Ensemble
    Le Nuove Musiche