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 [log in to unmask]