Speth: Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni, Music for Organ

The music of Johann Speth (1664-1719) has featured here and there on many compilations of instrumental music from mid-17th century Germany. However, until now there has never been a complete recording of the sole collection which carries his name down to us today.

Composer: Johann Speth
Artists: Chiara Minali (organ)
Letizia Butterin (gregorian chant)

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Published in 1693, this volume of keyboard toccatas, partitas and Magnificats takes its title from an influential treatise on the science and aesthetics of music from 1650 by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.

Kircher attempted to show how the balance of dissonance with consonance in harmony mirrored the presence of good and evil in the universe. There is in turn something attractively compendious about Speth’s musical response, which Speth appears to have produced as a bona fide for his successful application to become organist of the cathedral in Augsburg. Very little is known of his life until that point in 1692, and not much after, save that in 1719 he was still living and active in the city which at the time was politically significant and prosperous as a seat of the Hapsburgs.

Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni opens with a sequence of 10 toccatas, quite brief and owing something to the influence of contemporary southern German composers such as Georg Muffat and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. There follows the more Italianate strains of three ‘partitas’ – not dance suites but elaborations and variations on popular vocal melodies from the other side of the Alps.

Tracklist:
0:00 Toccata Prima oder Erstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
5:00 Toccata Secunda oder Zweytes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
10:07 Toccata Tertia oder Drites Musicalisches Blumen Feld
13:53 Toccata Quarta oder Viertes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
17:43 Toccata Quinta oder Fünfftes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
20:26 Toccata Sexta oder Sechstes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
24:50 Toccata Septima oder Sibendtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
27:24 Toccata Octava oder Achtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
30:27 Toccata Nona oder Neundtes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
33:25 Toccata Decima et ultima oder Zehendes Musicalisches Blumen Feld
36:54 Partite diverse sopra l’aria detta la Todesca
44:29 Partite diverse sopra l’aria detta la Pasquina
50:30 Partite diverse sopra la Spagnioletta
57:29 Magnificat primi toni
1:04:57 Magnificat secundi toni
1:10:58 Magnificat tertii toni
1:18:08 Magnificat quarti toni
1:25:00 Magnificat quinti toni
1:32:15 Magnificat sexti toni
1:39:43 Magnificat septimi toni
1:46:29 Magnificat octavi toni

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