Storace: Keyboard music

Storace: Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Astrée 8702

Contents:

  1. Partite sopra il cinque passi
  2. Corrente
  3. Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per b
  4. Recercar
  5. Ciaccona
  6. Corrente
  7. Aria sopra la Spagnoletta
  8. Toccata e Canzon
  9. Balletto
  10. Monica
  11. Ballo della Battaglia
  12. Passagagli sopra A la mi re

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:

Storace: Selva di varie compositione
Fabio Bonizzoni
Glossa 921506
Storace: Selva di varie composizioni
Francesco Cera
Tactus 601901
Storace: Selva di varie composizioni, 2
Francesco Cera
Tactus 601902
Storace: Harpsichord Music
Naoko Akutagawa
Naxos 8.572209
Danses à l'orgue autour du Bernardo Storace
Pascale Rouet
Pavane 7415
Storace: Una Sera Siciliana
Annamari Pölhö / Ballo della Battalia
Alba Records ABCD 150

A recording devoted to distinguished Neapolitan contemporary, Giovanni Salvatore (1620-1688):

Salvatore: Messa della Domenica
Ricercari a quattro voci / Toccate / Canzoni francesi
Fabio Bonizzoni / Schola Stirps Jesse
Glossa 921501

Finally, a recording by Alessandrini devoted to another more obscure composer of the era:

Pasquini: Sonate per gravicembalo (1702)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Astrée 8726

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Todd M. McComb