Italian organ music from the 16th-century on a 16th-century Italian organ: a unique compilation on record. The composer we know as Annibale Padovano (1527-1575) was named after his native city of Padua, but in 1552 he became organist at St Mark’s Venice while the Dutch composer Adrian Willaert was master of music there. Padovano probably joined Willaert’s group of pupils, and he would have encountered the likes of Andrea Gabrieli and Cipriano de Rore. Nonetheless, his reputation rests on the slender book of organ music published in 1604, which reveals him as a master contrapuntalist of his age in the Ricercars, and no less innovative or inventive in his use of the Toccata form, clearly Venetian in spirit yet individual in expression.
Works:
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Padovano: Ricerar del duodecimo tono
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Padovano: Ricercar del sesto tono alla terza
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Padovano: Toccata del ottavo tono
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Padovano: Toccata del primo tono
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Padovano: Toccata del sesto tono
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta L’Archangiola
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Capricciosa
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Cassiodora
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Diana
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Gentile
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Mariana
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Nora
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Pellegrini, V: Canzon detta la Serafina
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Pellegrini, V: Canzona per organo 'La Serpentina'
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Pellegrini, V: Canzone detta la Barbarina
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Pellegrini, V: Canzone detta la Berenice
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Pellegrini, V: Canzone detta la Gratiosa
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Pellegrini, V: Canzone detta la Pellegrina
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Pellegrini, V: La Pelegrina (1617)