The Monteverdi Organ

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Release Date: 23rd Jul 2021
Catalogue No: 96347
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 70 minutes

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Froberger: Toccata No. 9 in C Major, FbWV 109

Work length3:31

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Krijn Koetsveld

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length5:08

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina III

Track length5:08

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Froberger: Toccata No. 1 in A Minor, FbWV 101

Work length4:18

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Krijn Koetsveld

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length3:06

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?

Track length3:06

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Merula: Capriccio

Work length3:13

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Krijn Koetsveld

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length6:19

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Ab aeterno ordinata sum

Track length6:19

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Frescobaldi: Toccata Cromaticha per le levatione

Work length3:41

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Krijn Koetsveld

Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali

Work length6:31

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Recercar con obbligo di cantar la V parte

Track length3:18

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Canzon post il Comune

Track length3:13

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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length4:22

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Salve Regina II

Track length4:22

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Merula: Canzone seconda

Work length3:29

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Krijn Koetsveld

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length6:40

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Spuntava il di

Track length6:40

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Frescobaldi: Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga

Work length5:30

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Krijn Koetsveld

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length1:20

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Et iterum venturus est

Track length1:20

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Frescobaldi: Recercari et canzoni franzese fatte sopra diversi obblighi in partitura, libro primo (1615)

Work length5:45

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Krijn Koetsveld

Toccata No. 9, "Toccata nona"

Track length5:45

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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252-288

Work length7:31

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Krijn Koetsveld
Nuove Musiche, Le

Selva morale e spirituale: Laudate pueri Dominum II

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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.

This recording places this wonderful, new organ centre-stage, as a solo instrument in works by Frescobaldi, Froberger and Merula, but also as a continuo instrument in both sacred and secular vocal works selected from Monteverdi’s collection Selva morale e spirituale of 1641. In the latter, accompanimental role, one can hear first-hand why the soave sound of its wooden pipes was so prized for its ability to blend with the human voice, as was the nuanced wind supply hand-pumped by organ blowers on this recording, as it would have been in Monteverdi’s day.

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