Macque: Keyboard School At Gesualdo’s Court

Fabio Antonio Falcone

Composed by: De Macque, Giovanni

Comprised of 25 tracks and featuring eight different composers, this release celebrates the best of Giovanni de Macque and his late‐16th c. Naples contemporaries. Each piece hails from the ‘Luigi Rossi’ manuscript, a collection compiled in 1617 that still survives, giving us an extraordinary overview of the keyboard compositions written for the then-ruling Kingdom of Naples aristocrats. The music of this period was highly complex, exclusively aimed at the cultivated upper classes: extreme chromaticism as well as extensive use of polyphony and harmonic audacity are common traits.

Price: $12.98