Pellegrini / Scandali Complete Organ Music CD

The composer we know as Annibale Padovano was named after his native city of Padua, but in 1552 he became organist at St Mark's Venice while the Dutch composer Adrian Willaert was master of music there. Padovano probably joined Willaert's group of pupils, and he would have encountered the likes of Andrea Gabrieli and Cipriano de Rore. Nonetheless, his reputation rests on the slender book of organ music published in 1604, which reveals him as a master contrapuntalist of his age in the Ricercars, and no less innovative or inventive in his use of the Toccata form, clearly Venetian in spirit yet individual in expression. Vincenzo Pellegrini was born in Pesaro around 1562. Following his studies at the seminary, he became a canon regular of the cathedral in 1589 and appears to have been a popular teacher as well as a composer of church music. His work for organ likely dates from the end of his life, when he had become a canon in Milan Cathedral where there was a stronger tradition of instrumental composition. The Canzoni that have come down to us betray an evident debt to the French chanson tradition: simpler in form than Pellegrini, their melodic freshness and charm offers more than ample compensation in works such as 'La Serpentina' which has become a popular work of the period in it's own right. This is Luca Scandali's sixth album for Brilliant Classics, after imaginative collections of repertoire such as 'Balli, battaglie e canzoni' and 17th-century Italian organ music by Galuppi and Pasquini. For this album he has selected the historically significant organ in the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantova, which is tuned to the mean-tone temperament used in the era of Padovano and Pellegrini

1. Toccata Del Ottavo Tono 2. Ricercar Del Sesto Tono Alla Terza 3. Canzone Detta la Berenice 4. Canzon Detta la Nora 5. Canzon Detta la Cassiodora 6. Canzone Detta la Barbarina 7. Canzon Detta L'archangiola 8. Toccata Del Sesto Tono 9. Canzon Detta la Serpentina 10. Canzon Detta la Diana 11. Canzon Detta la Serafina 12. Canzone Detta la Gratiosa 13. Toccata Del Primo Tono 14. Ricercar Del Duodecimo Tono 15. Canzon Detta la Capricciosa 16. Canzon Detta la Mariana 17. Canzone Detta la Pellegrina 18. La Pelegrina 19. Canzon Detta la Gentile 20. Toccata Del Sesto Tono