Corina Marti – KeyNotes: Early European Keyboard Music (2008/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Some of the greatest works ever composed were conceived for and inspired by keyboard instruments. Today, however, the splendour of the canonical works for keyboard instruments composed after 1600 – Bach’s Preludes and Fugues, Beethoven’s Sonatas and Chopin’s Nocturnes – tends to overshadow works composed earlier, despite there being a rich history of repertoire and a variety of instruments at that earlier time. Corina Marti here not only explores the earliest keyboard music to be composed in Europe but also provides a fascinating insight into a world of virtuoso players and the music composed for them, playing a selection of instruments that are hardly known today: a metal-stringed clavisimbalum (an early form of harpsichord), an upright gut-stringed claviciterium, two organetti (portative organs) of different sizes, and the church organ in Altenbruch in northern Germany with its array of original pipes that date from the fifteenth century.

Tracklist:
1-1. Corina Marti – Descendit de celis (03:17)
1-2. Corina Marti – Danse real (01:02)
1-3. Corina Marti – Domino (02:09)
1-4. Corina Marti – Tribum quem non abhoruit (02:50)
1-5. Corina Marti – Chose Tassin (03:45)
1-6. Corina Marti – Kyrie “Cunctipotens genitor Deus” (07:39)
1-7. Corina Marti – Ave maris stella (01:33)
1-8. Corina Marti – Kyrie Angelicum (02:59)
1-9. Corina Marti – Redeuntes in mi (02:45)
1-10. Corina Marti – Mit ganczem Willen wünsch ich dir (01:22)
1-11. Corina Marti – Humble Pitié (01:25)
1-12. Corina Marti – Praeambulum super d a f et g (01:10)
1-13. Corina Marti – [A piece without title] (00:43)
1-14. Corina Marti – Stella pia (02:07)
1-15. Corina Marti – Molendinum de Paris (03:16)
1-16. Corina Marti – Benedicamus Domino (02:32)
1-17. Corina Marti – Amen (01:39)
1-18. Corina Marti – Io me son uno che per la frasche (02:22)
1-19. Corina Marti – Deh come dolcemente m’abbracciava (03:47)
1-20. Corina Marti – Se la vista soave (04:55)
1-21. Corina Marti – Per larghi prati e per gran boschi folti (04:03)
1-22. Corina Marti – Cantano gl’angiolieti Sanctus (03:22)
1-23. Corina Marti – Benedicamus: Sane per omnia (02:02)
1-24. Corina Marti – Benedicamus (02:55)