The music on this release is not all by Italian Renaissance composer Marco Antonio Cavazzoni; some pieces are by his son Girolamo, and others by their contemporaries. Nor does it consist entirely of ricercars. Harpsichordist Glen Wilson does well to contrast the ricercar (the direct ancestor to the fugue, and still cultivated by Bach a century and a half later) with adaptations of vocal pieces. This music stands at the beginning of the tradition of which Bach's keyboard music marked the end. It's not Bach, but it was ...
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The music on this release is not all by Italian Renaissance composer Marco Antonio Cavazzoni; some pieces are by his son Girolamo, and others by their contemporaries. Nor does it consist entirely of ricercars. Harpsichordist Glen Wilson does well to contrast the ricercar (the direct ancestor to the fugue, and still cultivated by Bach a century and a half later) with adaptations of vocal pieces. This music stands at the beginning of the tradition of which Bach's keyboard music marked the end. It's not Bach, but it was something entirely new in its own time, and Wilson catches the quality of systematic exploration of new possibilities. The repertory is more often played on the organ, but Wilson contends a harpsichord would have been more typical, and musically he makes a persuasive case. Probably it is of most interest to those who love early keyboard music -- the pieces don't differ sharply one from another, with the exception of the Recercada del primo tono of the virtually unknown Claudio Veggio --...
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