Instrument: Harpsichord in Italian style by Alain Anselm (Villemandeur, 1986; collection Gérard Dupaty)
Playing time: 65'
Recording date: August 1988
Bernardo Storace is known only from this single publication, engraved in copper by an unknown Venetian printer in 1664. The introduction states that he is chapel master in Messina, and thus notionally of the Southern school of Italian keyboard music, although his work generally has more in common formally with the Northern style of Rossi & Merulo. The publication is made up overwhelmingly of variation forms, worked out quite rigorously.
Other recordings devoted to Storace:
A recording devoted to distinguished Neapolitan contemporary, Giovanni Salvatore (1620-1688):
Finally, a recording by Alessandrini devoted to another more obscure composer of the era:
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Todd M. McComb