Manuel Tomadin - Rossi: Toccate & Correnti for Organ & Harpsichord - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1970, nine years after leaving the United States to study music in Canada, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released two self-titled albums. Both were a stunning showcase of classical and jazz acumen, layered with poetry and accompanied by some of the best players of the time. Original pressings now fetch thousands of dollars. Glenn-Copeland then vanished as a recording artist until his re-emergence in 1986 with the (just a few hundred copies on cassette) of what many now believe to be his masterpiece, Keyboard Fantasies. Marking the 35th anniversary, Transgressive reissues Keyboard Fantasies with updated artwork and liner notes by pop star, Robyn. Album Tracks 1. Ever New 2. Winter Astral 3. Let Us Dance 4. Slow Dance 5. Old Melody 6. Sunset Village

In his own lifetime (1839-1901), Joseph Rheinberger was more sought after as a professor of organ and composition than he was recognized as a great composer. His roll call of students at the conservatoire in Munich was long and impressive, including Humperdinck, Wolf-Ferrari and Furtwängler. However, Rheinberger produced a significant catalogue of sacred music in particular, concentrated on choir and organ. Sometimes unfavourably compared to Brahms, he is more usefully regarded as a south-German Fauré - for the gentle contours of his melodies and the softly rounded quality of his choral writing. The principal work on this new album is the Mass for four-part men's chorus which he composed in 1898, and which has become a staple of the male chorus repertoire around the world. By no means as staid or sober as it's scoring might suggest, the Mass is a work of resonant beauty and sweetness, a concise and elegant demonstration of Rheinberger's melodic gifts and his embodiment of Catholic values in the secular musical culture of late 19th-century Germany. This newly recorded album makes an ideal introduction to the world of Rheinberger through it's diversity. The Mass is complemented by a radiant partsong, Abendfriede, and a setting of the Ave Maria all the more affecting for it's devotional simplicity, close in spirit to the early motets of Bruckner. Finally, Manuel Tomadin plays the grandest and best-known of the 20 organ sonatas composed by Rheinberger throughout his career. Cast in three movements, No. 19 opens with an imposing Allegro, while the intimate central Provenzalische finds Rheinberger at his most beguiling as he taps into the folkloristic culture of German Catholicism. Prefaced by a broad introduction, the chromatic counterpoint of the finale approaches Reger for hard-won transcendence, played here on the organ of the Church of Maria Ausiliatrice in the Sloveni

Performer and scholar Vania Dal Maso has constructed an innovative programme exploring music for stringed keyboard instruments from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Based on the study and interpretation of sources, both on the instruments' construction and musical interpretation, she explores the profoundly different sounds and tone-colours of the clavichord, hammered clavicymbalum and clavicytherium. The music ranges widely in forms and genres from across Europe, including music sourced from the oldest-known manuscript for keyboard instruments - the Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1320) - to create the widest possible stylistic panorama of keyboard music of the time. Album Tracks 1. Redeuntes In Re 2. Retrové 3. Bel fiore dança 4. Stüblin ete. 5. Mi ut re ut e c d c Aliud Mi ut re ut E c d c 6. Tribum quem 7. C[on] l[agreme] 8. Con lacrime M.C.C. 9. fior(e) gentil m'apparse 10. Che pena questa 11. O ciecho mondo 12. dolce sere 13. Non na el so amante 14. Mensura trium notarum supra tenorem Frowe al myn hoffen an dyr lyed 15. Mensura duorum notarum eiusdem tenoris 16. Preambulum super g 17. Incipit bo(nus Tenor) Leohardi 18. Praeambulum super fa 19. Paumgartner 20. Praeambulum super re 21. Mit ganczem Willen wunsch ich dir 22. En avois 23. Annabasanna 3 24. Ellend du hast 25. J'ay pris amours 26. Dulongesux 27. Praeambulum super d a f et g 28. Adyen matres belle