Program: #26-30🏆 Air Date: Jul 20, 2026
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The Ensemble InALTO shares the adventurous music of this Cremona-based virtuoso, with both organ works, larger instrumental forces, and some of the sacred canzonas.
Next: ⮞ #26-31 🔒🏆Melchior Franck: The Penitential Psalms
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the recording Tarquinio Merula: Concerti Spirituali (InALTO/Lambert Colson & Bernard Foccroulle). Ricercar RIC 474.
Tarquinio Merula belonged to a generation of Italian composers, all of whom were born around 1600, for whom the concertante style was no longer a new idiom but a preferred musical medium, one that had been acquired in childhood and which had become not only the dominant musical language of the time but which was also to spread across the whole of Europe.
Tarquinio Merula was renowned as a violin and organ virtuoso and published a wide variety of instrumental music per la chiesa e la camera.
On Concerti Spirituali (Spiritual Concerts), InAlto explores Merula’s sacred works, including the famous lullaby Hor che è tempo di dormire. His works may seem simple at times, but are impressively innovative; whilst sacred in character, they are rooted in human emotion.
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Intonazione cromatica del terzo tono — 02:16
- Canzoni a quattro voci, Op. 1: No. 2, La Lusignuola — 03:52
- Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna: Hor ch’è tempo di dormire — 07:57
- Intonazione cromatica del quarto tono — 03:32
- Canzoni da suonare, Op. 17: No. 18, La Cavagliera — 03:20
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Canzon II in C Major — 02:25
- Canzonetta Spirituale: Chi vuol ch'io m’innamori — 03:20
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Capriccio cromatico — 04:02
- Canzoni overo sonate concertate, Op. 12: No. 24, Ballo detto Pollicio — 02:29
- Motetti e sonate concertati, Op. 6: Sonata prima à 2 — 05:02
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Toccata del secondo tono — 03:30
- Motetti e sonate concertati, Op. 6: Sonata seconda à 2 — 05:02
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Canzon "La Marca" — 03:18
- Pegaso, Op. 11: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino — 03:27
- Canzoni a quattro voci, Op. 1: No. 4, La Merula — 03:58
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Intonazione cromatica del nono tono — 03:05
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Canzon V in G Major — 04:45
- Canzoni overo sonate concertate, Op. 12: No. 4, La Treccha — 04:29
- Composizioni per Organo e Cembalo: Capriccio — 03:04
- Motetti e sonate concertati, Op. 6: Favus distillans — 04:11
Next: ⮞ #26-31 🔒🏆Melchior Franck: The Penitential Psalms