Merulo/ Bonizzoni - Toccate Ricercari Release:Toccate Ricercari Arcana Records Continuing Jon Savage's critically-acclaimed series

Continuing Jon Savage's critically-acclaimed series of compilations for Ace

sometimes transmitting a feeling of loving frustration and at other times cheerfulness too

During his lifetime

psychedelic disco

and his teacher and accredited and exclusive composer

Merulo/ Bonizzoni - Toccate Ricercari Release:Toccate Ricercari Arcana Records Continuing Jon Savage's critically-acclaimed seriesSuspended between the Renaissance and Baroque eras, Merulo's Toccate are unique compositions which occupy a singular role in the landscape of keyboard music. They are not prototypes, in that they are artistically too mature: rather, they prelude the way of expressing affetti of the "seconda prattica" on the keyboard, an art of which Frescobaldi would later be the uncontested master. The fascination of these daring compositions lies in the coexistence