Torrent, Montserrat / Bonfiglioli, Matteo
Echi Organo: Music For Two Organs In Renaissance And Ey
This disc casts light on a fundamental practice within Italian sonic civilisation between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the dialogue of two organs within the polychoral space and the gradual emergence of a properly instrumental repertory. Echo canzonas by Bastiano Chilese, Pietro Lappi and Giovanni Battista Grillo, pages by Adriano Banchieri and anonymous masters, intabulations after Willaert, and rarities from the manuscripts of CastellArquato converge in an itinerary of high historical distinction. The governing idea of the project, entrusting to two keyboards the direct intabulation of eight-voice compositions and the antiphonal redistribution of pieces originally conceived for a single organ, restores to sonic space its original responsorial eloquence.