Storace: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music

Featuring

Enrico Viccardi
Bernardo Storace

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Compositional Technique

Storace's Passagagli pieces feature the classic descending tetrachord bass and showcase his boldest harmonic devices, including false relations and simultaneous use of ascending and descending melodic minor scales.

Compositional Technique

A prominent feature in Storace's music is his fondness for variation, applied to both familiar melodies and typical bass patterns of the period.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Bernardo Storace's style demonstrates a degree of originality that should place him among the great keyboard composers of the Baroque period in Europe.

Composer Biography

Bernardo Storace was the 'deputy chapel master of the most worthy Senate of the noble and exemplary city of Messina' when his collection of works was published in 1664.

Compositional Technique

The collection of works by Bernardo Storace presents a 'state of the art' of keyboard music of the time, combining traditional pieces with more modern compositions.

Recording & Production

This recording uses four different historical instruments: a harpsichord, a spinet, an 18th-century Neapolitan positive organ, and a large organ with pipes dating back to the 16th century.

Composer Biography

All known information about Bernardo Storace, the composer, comes from his 1664 collection of works, 'Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo'.