Bella Gerit Ensemble & Luca Scandali - Fasolo: Annuale opera ottava, Venezia 1645 (2017)

The almanac which contains all that an organist must do to answer the chorus all year long, is the title of this 1645 publication signed by the Franciscan brother Giovanni Battista Fasolo (1598? -1664?). There are therefore, for several formats of mass, all the short organ pieces that come to be inserted between the hymns sung during the sacred service, in musical response. The organist Luca Scandali, on the organ built by Luca di Bernardino da Cortona in 1547 - certainly, the instrument was reworked over the centuries, but the foundation remains the old one, especially since the last restoration restored a Most of the elements of the period, offers us the unfolding of three of these masses, playing alternately with the sung interventions (in this case by the vocal ensemble Bella Gerrit). It will be noted that the organ pieces are very short, sometimes less than a minute, sometimes scarcely more than three, clearly serving to punctuate the discourse - and perhaps also to help the singers not to detonate too much, They often sing a cappella … The intriguing sonority of this almost half-millennium instrument, with its mesotonic tuning - 432 Hz tuning fork, very high therefore - brings us back to other spheres quite unusual and yet so Attractive.

TRACKLIST

01. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie - Bella Gerit Ensemble
02. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Gloria - Bella Gerit Ensemble
03. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Brevis modulatio post Epistolam - Luca Scandali
04. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Gravis modulatio pro Offertorio - Luca Scandali
05. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Sanctus - Bella Gerit Ensemble
06. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Benedictus et elevatio Simul - Luca Scandali
07. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Agnus Dei - Bella Gerit Ensemble
08. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Brevis modulatio post Agnus - Luca Scandali
09. Missa in Dominicis diebus, Op. 8 No. 20: Deo gratias ut in primo Kyrie - Bella Gerit Ensemble
10. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie - Mauro Presazzi
11. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Gloria - Mauro Presazzi
12. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Modulatio post Epistolam - Luca Scandali
13. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Gravis modulatio pro Offertorio - Luca Scandali
14. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Sanctus - Bella Gerit Ensemble
15. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Elevatio - Luca Scandali
16. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Agnus Dei - Bella Gerit Ensemble
17. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Brevis modulatio post Agnus Dei - Luca Scandali
18. Missa in duplicibus diebus, Op. 8 No. 21: Deo gratias ut in primo Kyrie - Bella Gerit Ensemble
19. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie - Bella Gerit Ensemble
20. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Gloria - Bella Gerit Ensemble
21. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Brevis modulatio post Epistolam - Luca Scandali
22. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Gravis modulatio pro Offertorio - Luca Scandali
23. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Sanctus - Bella Gerit Ensemble
24. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Benedictus et elevatio - Luca Scandali
25. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Agnus Dei - Bella Gerit Ensemble
26. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Brevis modulatio More Gallico post Agnus - Luca Scandali
27. Missa beatae Mariae Virginis, Op. 8 No. 22: Deo gratias ut in primo Kyrie - Bella Gerit Ensemble