"I have found that this music can appeal to anyone. One can simply enjoy a rich sound-world
produced by the sonorities of three very different Italian style instruments (including an ottavino,
which has attracted a YouTube following of its own) – but also enjoy the development of keyboard
counterpoint from its early origins through to pieces which look forward to the baroque fugue.​

My YouTube videos of early Ricercars by Veggio prompted a lot of interest. You can see these here:"
https://youtu.be/Qa8NvKCoBBc
https://youtu.be/jvQF_TvAw4Y
https://youtu.be/nVoZuYqDgjY
https://youtu.be/vXyypMrw5Xk

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Music on the CD (20 tracks):

OTT = ottavino
SH = small single-strung harpsichord
LH = large double-strung harpsichord (The double-strung facility of the large harpsichord is used for two tracks.)
Numbers in brackets refer to the AIOM edition.

Julio of Modena: Ricerchare di Julio da Modena per musica ficta in sol per la via di G sol re ut (no. 7) LH

Jacobo Fogliano: Ricerchare de Jacobo fogliano (no. 8) OTT

Jacobo Fogliano: Ricerchada di Jacobo fogliano do Modena (no. 9) SH

Girolamo Frescoboldi: Ricercar secondo SH

Claudio Veggio: Recercada del primo tono per b mollo (no. 26) OTT

Jacobo Fogliano: Ricerchare de Jacobo fogliano da modena (no. 2) SH

Frescoboldi: Ricercar Terzo LH

Jacob Froberger: Ricercar I LH

Claudio Veggio(?): La fugitiva Claudius a.4 (no. l2) SH, (A song tune, in up to four parts)

Frescoboldi: Ricercar Ottavo, Obligo di non Uscir di Grado OTT (The title explains the unusual feature that no intervals of a second are used, as in a scale ["grado"]).

Froberger: Ricercar IV SH (The composer bends the form, to accommodate sections in different rhythms and note values.)

Jacobo Fogliano: Ricercare di Jocobo fogliono da modena (no. 3) OTT

Claudio Veggio: Recercado per b mollo del primo tono (no. 19) SH (A more extended work, in A/B/A form)

Frescoboldi: Ricercar Nono, con Quattro Soggetti OTT (The principal (and first-heard) of the four separate themes, is the "Flemish Bass," a popular tune which the composer also used for one of his Capricci.)

Veggio: Recercar del primo tono (no. 25) LH (An unusually bold, arresting opening, in Pavano rhythm, sets the mood for the whole piece.)

Froberger: Ricercar V LH (A stately, restrained piece, with a particularly beautiful conclusion.)
Veggio: Recercada per b Quadro del quorto tono (no. 27) OTT

Froberger: Ricercor II SH (An extended ricercar; halfway through, the initial subject re-enters in augmentation [one note to a bar], against a more vigorous second subject.)

Veggio (?): Recercada VII (no. 23) OTT

Veggio: Recercoda per b Quadro del primo tono (no. l8) LH (The most extended and virtuosic piece in the whole Castell-Arquato collection. A middle section appears in coranto rhythm, before returning to four-time for the dramatic conclusion.)