Giovanni Battista Pescetti: Complete Keyboard Music – Paolo Bottini

   in Choir & Organ (May, 2017)
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the death of Pescetti (1704-66), Paolo Bottini has recorded all his extant music: Sonate per gravicembalo (London, 1739), Sei sonate per il cembalo (Dresden manuscript, before 1756), and the four early organ sonatas (Venice manuscript, no date). However, only Sonata no.10 is recorded on the harpsichord; all other sonatas are recorded on two fine historic Italian organs, restored and tuned in Vallotti temperament and dating from Pescetti’s lifetime. The transition is most effective, and because his organ and harpsichord idioms are so similar, the varied sounds of these Italian organs give the music real interest and vitality. Each sonata, of between two and …