RUGGERI,MARCO - Ponchielli: Complete Organ Music (2CD) 2019

Исполнитель: RUGGERI,MARCO

Альбом: Ponchielli: Complete Organ Music

Лейбл: Brilliant Classics

Вид носителя: 2CD

Дата Релиза: 13.12.2019

Состояние: Новая (запечатанная)

Штрих код: 5028421960197

Примечание: A delightful discovery for all fans of verismo and Romantic organ music, including an entire disc of world premiere recordings. The string quartets of Donizetti and Verdi, and the oboe concerto of Bellini, represent rare overlaps between the fields of operatic and instrumental music in 19th-century Italy. Moving into the 20th century, the operas of Respighi have gained a toe-hold on the record catalogues but he is still remembered principally (and justly) for his orchestral showpieces such as the Pines of Rome, while composers in the contemporary verismo tradition carried on doing what they did best and producing knock-em-dead tragedies of high drama and low life for the lyric stage, from Tosca to La Gioconda. Or did they? A fact known to very few even in Italy is that Amilcare Ponchielli, composer of La Gioconda and teacher of Puccini, wrote not only for the opera house but also the church. As the son of a shopkeeper who was organist in the village church, he studied music first with his father and then with the organist of a neighbouring village. In his early years he produced a substantial repertoire of sacred music and a body of organ pieces for occasional and liturgical use, few of which were played until Marco Ruggeri, the organist on this new recording, gathered them together for an authoritative critical edition in 1999. They include a novel symphony ‘half for organ, half for piano’.