Italian Music from the Late Renaissance and Baroque

[Que]

Messori writes about Luzzaschi's  Bk2 as if it's one of the major works of baroque counterpoint, at one point he suggests that the book is structured, a cycle. He prides himself on the sobriety of his interpretations, which he thinks follows the composers style as documented by his contemporaries. Time to revisit.

Regardless of the composer's great importance, Messori's interpretation is indeed sober, almost a bit colorless, so it hasn't really engaged me so far.

It is a pity that sofar Messori is the only game in town on the keyboard music..

[prémont]

That was my reaction when it was released, but still, I found Messori's comments inspiring.

Can you make sense of this? What are these "madrigals without words?"

I don't perceive Luzzaschi's keyboard music as transcribed madrigals and I don't hear anything in Messori's performance which makes me associate to this..

(The experience of listening to Messori is like other slightly grizzly things I masochistically enjoy -- for example Gillian Weir's Roberday.)

Quite agreed. Having heard the few Roberday pieces Claude Terrasse recorded (on the Isnard organ in Sarlat) I'm very disappointed that he didn't record them all.

[DavidW]

I've just discovered Benedetto Marcello through these wonderful cello sonatas. I wondered if anyone had any recommendations to explore this composer further. Here is the recording in question:

[Harry]

I've just discovered Benedetto Marcello through these wonderful cello sonatas. I wondered if anyone had any recommendations to explore this composer further. Here is the recording in question:

Not my recording, bland and flat faced.

[DavidW]

Not my recording, bland and flat faced.

Do you prefer the one on Brilliant? I can't stream it until Saturday when my streamer arrives!

[Harry]

Do you prefer the one on Brilliant? I can't stream it until Saturday when my streamer arrives!

Most importantly you have to listen to the recordings available, the Brilliant recordings I do not know, but since personal considerations are in effect the decisive factor, I urge you to sample different interpretations.