Donald Satz writes:

>Overall, I give both sets a mild recommendation, and my best advice
>is to venture into the musical world of the magnificent de Cabezon (b.
>1510) through a 2-cd set of his organ works on Mottete 12291; this is
>the best of early music by a masterful composer, and the organist Jose
>Luis Gonzalez Uriol plays six different historical organs.

I have to thank you, Don, for bringing this Cabezon set to my attention.
Somehow, I missed its existence.  I'll have to give it a listen, as
Cabezon is indeed a wonderful composer, although I usually prefer
harpsichord to organ.

Regarding Trabaci, of course he is of a completely different generation.
His music is full of the interplay of rhetorical figures, something
Vartolo brings out very well in the set.  It's almost akin to a conversation
within itself, one of the things for which Baroque composers strove in
the early decades of the 1600s.  Trabaci's music features a particularly
dense interplay, very much exhibiting the Neapolitan emphasis on
chromaticism which was the fashion of the time.

Todd McComb
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