Richard Lester - Masterworks and Miniatures: Organ and Harpsichord Music from Renaissance Venice (2015)

Tracklist

01. Toccata in the Iind tone
02. Canzon detta 'Qui la dira'
03. Ricercar in the VIIth and VIIIth tones
04. Canzona alla francese: Petit Jacquet
05. Ricercar Settimo tono
06. Canzon à 4 'Torna Crequilon': La Leonora
07. Ricercar Arioso
08. Toccata VIth tone
09. Ricercar à 3
10. Canzona: La Guamina
11. Ricercar mode X
12. Canzon I La Spiritata, Ch.186
13. Ricercar Primo
14. Canzona alla francese detta: Je ne diray moy bergiere
15. Toccata Prima, Primo Tuono
16. Intonazione mode I
17. Toccata Ottava Quarto Tuono
18. Intonazione del primo tono, Ch.240
19. Toccata Settima Ottavo Tuono
20. Intonazione del secondo tono, Ch.241
21. Toccata Undecimo detto Quinto Tuono
22. Ricercar Quinto Tuono
23. Intonazione del duodecimo tono, Ch.250

This programme explores Italian keyboard music of the sixteenth century with works by Girolamo Diruta, Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabreli, Gioseffo Guami, and Antonio Mortaro. As Richard Lester explains in his extended liner note, his own study of contemporary performance treatise, particularly that of Diruta, for correct period fingering, ornamentation and registration for these works, informs his performances of these pieces and expresses their unique character.

A 90-page score has also been compiled and edited by Richard Lester, NMP1015, which includes this CD and a DVD video where Richard demonstrates the techniques for accurate and correct performance of these works.