Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Complete Organ Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Complete Organ Music (2021)
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The most comprehensive collection of organ music by a major forerunner to Monteverdi, recorded on a historically significant instrument by an organist with a distinguished catalogue of 17th-century repertoire.

Born in northern Italy around the turn of the 16th century – no more precise data is available – Girolamo Cavazzoni became organist of the cathedral in Mantova in 1621 and soon after entered the service of the Gonzaga family whose lavish artistic patronage sponsored and encouraged many of the finest Italian composers of the day. During his Mantuan years Cavazzoni taught the organ to Costanzo Antegnati (1549-1624), son of the organ builder at S Barbara, Graziadio Antegnati. Costanzo’s L’arte organica (Brescia, 1608) recalls Cavazzoni as ‘Hieronimo d’Urbino gi`a mio honorato maestro’.

In 1565-6 he supervised the building of the organ in the church of S Barbara, Mantua, and also played the organ there at Mass. This is the very instrument played by Federico Del Sordo, lending his recording a unique authenticity and powerful sense of place and time. The restoration of the single-manual Santa Barbara organ (1995-2006) was undertaken by Giorgio Carli with the aim of returning the instrument to its original pristine state as far as possible, rather than extending or ‘improving’ it, and thus the colours of the instrument closely resemble those with which Cavazzoni was familiar.

Much of the music here was written for liturgical performance in the alternatim fashion, whereby verses of the Mass text, the Magnificat or an antiphon are alternatively played and embroidered by the organ and then chanted by a choir. Federico Del Sordo draws on two original volumes, printed in Venice in the 1540s, plus a pair of ricercars to be found in multi-authored collections of the time. Together they build a portrait of a composer as stylish as he was pragmatic.

Tracklist:
01. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Recercar Primo (05:10)
02. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Christe Redemptor Omnium (02:25)
03. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Ad Coenam Agni Provide (02:05)
04. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Recercar seconda (05:13)
05. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Lucis Creator Optime (02:18)
06. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Ave Maris Stella (02:32)
07. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Recercar Terzo (05:52)
08. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Veni Creator Spiritus (01:59)
09. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Exultet Coelum Laudibus (01:52)
10. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Recercar Quarto (04:48)
11. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Pange Lingua Gloriosi (02:32)
12. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Iste Confessor (02:18)
13. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Canzon Sopra I Le Bel E Bon (02:19)
14. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Iesu Nostra Redemptio (02:05)
15. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Iesu Corona Virginum (02:06)
16. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Canzon Sopra Falt D’argens (02:39)
17. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Deus Tuorum Militum (02:13)
18. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Hymnus Hostis Herodes Impie (01:43)
19. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Magnificat Primi Toni (07:27)
20. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Magnificat Ottavi Toni (07:18)
21. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Magnificat Quarti Toni (06:36)
22. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Magnificat Sexti Toni (07:08)
23. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Apostolorum – Kyrie (07:27)
24. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Apostolorum – Gloria (09:12)
25. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Credo Cardinalis (11:04)
26. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Apostolorum – Sanctus (02:20)
27. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Apostolorum – Agnus Dei (01:44)
28. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Dominicalis – Kyrie (06:30)
29. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Dominicalis – Gloria (08:27)
30. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Credo Dominicalis (10:07)
31. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Dominicalis – Sanctus (02:15)
32. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa Dominicalis – Agnus Dei (01:52)
33. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa De Beata Virgine – Kyrie (05:59)
34. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa De Beata Virgine – Gloria (09:56)
35. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa De Beata Virgine – Sanctus (02:36)
36. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Missa De Beata Virgine – Agnus Dei (02:22)
37. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Ricercare (06:34)
38. Federico del Sordo, Nova Schola Gregoriana & Alberto Turco – Cavazzoni: Recercar (02:23)