ROSSI: Music for Organ and Harpsichord [CD de audio] Riccardo Castagnetti and Rossi

Living in the first half of the 17th century, Michelangelo Rossi held important positions as a composer and court musician. His Toccate, the only published works, are inserted in the tradition of Italian keyboard music, of Frescobaldi in particular, but they also show the harmonic audacity and expressive chromaticisms typical of the best madrigalists, such as Sigismondo D'India and Gesualdo. Riccardo Castagnetti plays the Toccate on the Antegnati organ of the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua and on a Vanini harpsichord copied from a Grimaldi from 1697.