Picchi: Complete Harpsichord Music

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...well played with pleasingly resonant and warm, or else delicately spun, tones from the 2016 Roberto Marioni harpsichord, patterned after a Carlo Grimaldi instrument from c. 1700. The recorded... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2022 More…

Release Date: 23rd Jul 2021
Catalogue No: 95998
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 73 minutes

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Picchi: Toccata

Work length4:39

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Picchi: Intavolatura di balli

Work length20:43

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Pass'e mezzo

Track length5:43

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Saltarello del Pass'e mezzo

Track length1:15

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Ballo ditto il Pichi

Track length2:03

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Ballo detto il Steffanin

Track length2:16

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Ballo alla polacha

Track length2:17

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Ballo ongaro

Track length2:35

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Todesca

Track length1:36

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Padoana ditta La Ongara

Track length1:21

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L'ongara a un'altro Modo

Track length1:37

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Picchi: Intavolatura d'Organo

Work length14:09

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Passe e Mezzo di Mg. Gio. Picchi

Track length3:39

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Passo e Mezzo di Giovan. Picchi

Track length2:52

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Saltarello del detto

Track length1:27

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Passe e Mezzo del Giovanni Picchi

Track length4:50

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Saltarello del detto prima parte

Track length1:21

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Padovano: Toccata del sesto tono

Work length4:04

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Padovano: Ricercar del duodecimo tono

Work length4:58

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Merulo: Canzona La Bovia a 4

Work length3:20

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Merulo: Toccata prima dell' undecimo tono

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Gabrieli, A: Canzon Francese Detta Frais Et Gaillard

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Bellavere: Toccata

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Gabrieli, G: Fuga del nono tono

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Gabrieli, G: Ricercare del VII e VIII tono

Work length2:57

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Gabrieli, G: Canzon No. 1, "La Spiritata"

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The only complete survey available of the keyboard music written by a forward-looking contemporary of Monteverdi.

Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643) flourished in Venice, notably as the organist at the Scuola di San Rocco. He became renowned as a composer of both secular and sacred music, attested by his presence in the Nobiltà di dame by Fabrizio Caroso, the most important collection of dance music of the time. A collection of his canzone was published in 1625 and his fame spread to England, where a Toccata for harpsichord was transcribed within the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (of which Brilliant has recently released the first-ever complete recording, 95915).

Other important sources for his keyboard music include collections published in Venice in 1621 and an undated collection of intablatures (transcriptions and elaborations of music by other composers) which is now held in Turin. Together they amount to some of the most brilliant and appealing music for the harpsichord from 17th-century Italy. Picchi’s harmonic language was especially daring, and his flair as a performer is reflected in the style of his writing, which exploits the full range of the instrument.

In complement to Picchi’s work, Simone Stella has chosen other jewels from Venetian composers of the time: toccatas, ricercare and canzone by Annibale Padovano, Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Vincenzo Bellavere. Bellavere is another neglected figure nowadays, but the Toccata recorded here is a gloriously ornate example of the genre, alternating intricate counterpoint with filigree decoration.

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Jan/Feb 2022

...well played with pleasingly resonant and warm, or else delicately spun, tones from the 2016 Roberto Marioni harpsichord, patterned after a Carlo Grimaldi instrument from c. 1700. The recorded sound is clear and pleasantly gauged, close but not overbearing.

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