Pellegrini / Scandali

Complete Organ Music Pellegrini / Scandali

This collection of Toccatas, Ricercars and Canzones by Annibale Padovano and Vincenzo Pellegrini comprises examples of all the main forms of Italian organ music of the Renaissance, the Golden Age in which keyboard music flourished and huge leaps of development were made. Padovano was an organist at the famous San Marco in Venice, while Pellegrini was Maestro di Cappella at the Milan Cathedral, both composers made valuable contributions to the development of the keyboard style, in which imitative elements and a healthy dose of ornamentation and virtuosity found their place. Played on the 1565 historic organ of Graziadio Antegnati organ in the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua, Italy. Luca Scandali is one of the foremost organists of Italy, artist and scholar, who already made several successful recordings for Brilliant Classics, a.o. by Galuppi, of which Fanfare Classical Magazine wrote: "the performance themselves are superb. Organist Luca Scandali understand this repertoire perfectly and renders it with grace, vitality and imaginative use of varying registrations, all captured in clear, warm recorded sound".

Luca Scandali also wrote the extensive, scholarly liner notes in the booklet, which also contains all the specifications and photo of the organ.