Echo pour Trompette

Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) composed “Echo pour Trompette,” a late Renaissance piece for organ with trumpet register. Born in Correggio, the composer and organist was a musician at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice for almost 30 years, most recently as principal organist on the main organ, while Andrea Gabrieli was organist on the second, smaller organ. In 1584, Merulo moved to the Farnese court in Parma, where he also became cathedral organist. There he found a monumental organ, built by Antegnati between 1556 and 1560, which had been in service for over 200 years; at the time, the instrument was considered as too large and too loud. In Venice, Merulo had previously played on a small instrument, which was installed in 1489 by Fra Urbano as the primo organo. This organ was replaced in 1588 by a larger instrument, which, on Merulo's recommendation, was a 8 or 9 stops organ with a full pedal. The second, smaller cathedral organ had 4 stops (https://www.martinschlu.de).
The “Echo” is dated to before 1617, with anonymous origins in the “Liber Fratrum Cruciferorum Leodiensium,” the book of the Crusader Brothers of Liège. Alexander Guilmant edited this collection and published the score in 1910. William Crane Carl also published the piece in his Historical Organ Collection in 1919. Both recommend registrations that correspond to the spirit of the time for french-romantic organs (8' trompette, soft 4'/8' stops and 8'/16' pedal stops). Carl's score edition is the basis for my recording; In the lack of an adequate sample that I like, I chose the neo-baroque organ from Dreischor (NL).

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