"Authentic" recordings of early organ music are rare, for the comparatively small organs of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were in most cases replaced by the more splendid efforts of the builders of the High Baroque. This little disc, originally released in 1990 and reissued by the omnivorous Dutch budget label Brilliant, is the exception. The organs that Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli would have played at the cathedral of San Marco in Venice (the much-photographed building front on Venice's pigeon-crowded main ...
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"Authentic" recordings of early organ music are rare, for the comparatively small organs of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were in most cases replaced by the more splendid efforts of the builders of the High Baroque. This little disc, originally released in 1990 and reissued by the omnivorous Dutch budget label Brilliant, is the exception. The organs that Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli would have played at the cathedral of San Marco in Venice (the much-photographed building front on Venice's pigeon-crowded main piazza) no longer exist. But a similar pair has been preserved at the Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna, and it is these that are used here by organists Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Liuwe Tamminga. The effect is really delightful, and for many average listeners who enjoy organ music it will stir a desire to hear more organ music of the early Baroque played this way. The pieces are for one or two organs, and they cover the typical genres of the Gabrieli father and son: the free...
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