Andrea Gabrieli: Keyboard Music

Andrea Gabrieli, uncle and mentor to the unjustly more famous Giovanni, was the first true genius of the Italian keyboard school. Besides an important corpus of vocal music, this organist of San Marco composed complex monothematic ricercars, turning the form into the ancestor of the fugue; as well as brilliant preambula and toccatas, gorgeously ornamented arrangements of madrigals and chansons, and a sparking passamezzo. Glen Wilson performs a selection of these on copies of a 16th-century Italian harpsichord and spinetta.

"Here is a generous selection of Andrea Gabrieli's keyboard works played on harpsichord and spinet. All of the forms Gabrieli worked in are represented: preludes. Ricercars, and pieces based on songs and dances. On the one hand, Gabrieli can be highly didactic in his presentation of musical material and its evolution. On the other hand there is a strong sense of the ineffable in his music; sometimes the voices are so eerily independent that one seems to possess self awareness. Wilson is a fine advocate for these rarely heard treasures of keyboard literature."-American Record Guide

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Recording information: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009).

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Anonymous, Italian : Praeambulum primi toni, for keyboard (attrib. to A. Gabrieli)

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 1 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Ricercar del primo tono alla quarta alta, for organ (from "Ricercari...libro secondo")

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 6 min. 30 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Ricercar sopra "Pour ung plaisir," for organ

Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Giovanni : Toccata primi toni

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Pass'e mezzo antico in cinque modi variati, for organ

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Canzon deta "Suzanne un jour," for organ (after Orlande de Lassus' chanson)

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Canzon detta "Qui la dira," for keyboard (after Janequin's chanson)

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Toccata del nono tono, for organ (from "Intonationi d'organo...")

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 5 min. 8 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Ricercar del primo tono, for organ (from "Il terzo libro de ricercari")

Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Anonymous, Italian : Praeambulum quarti toni, for keyboard (attrib. to A. Gabrieli)

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Ricercar del quarto tono, for organ (from "Ricercari...libro secondo")

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 5 min. 35 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Canzon francese detta "Frais et Galliard," for organ (after Crequillon's chanson)

Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Io mi son giovinetta a 4

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Toccata del decimo tono, for organ

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Il terzo libro de ricercari

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 6 min. 42 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Blow, John : As [Whilst] on Septimius' panting breast, song for 2 voices, 2 violins & continuo

Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1685

Gabrieli, Andrea : Ricercar del terzo tono, for organ (from "Ricercari...libro secondo")

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Il terzo libro de ricercari

Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Gabrieli, Andrea : Anchor che co'l partire, transcription for keyboard of madrigal by Cipriano de Rore

Performer: Glen Wilson (Harpsichord)
Notes: Monreale, Sicily, Italy (06/05/2009-06/07/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

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