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Cimarosa: 21 Organ Sonatas / Chezzi
Brilliant Classics

Cimarosa: 21 Organ Sonatas / Chezzi

$13.99

Details

Composer
CIMAROSA, DOMENICO
Artist
Andrea Chezzi
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 07, 2020
Catalog #
BRI95781
UPC
5028421957814

About

Brilliant Classics has already published all 88 of Domenico Cimarosa’s keyboard sonatas in their commonly encountered appearance as harpsichord pieces (BC95027), as well as an album of 30 sonatas in arrangements for guitar (BC94172). He may still be better known as a composer of comic opera, for masterpiece such as Il matrimonio segreto, but this new album of the sonatas in versions for organ celebrates the variety and adaptability of Cimarosa’s idiom and demonstrates why he was so lionized in his own time. The painter Delacroix preferred Cimarosa’s music to Mozart’s. Stendhal wrote that he would rather be hanged than be forced to state which of the two he preferred. Even the notoriously partial Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick lavished praise on Cimarosa’s wonderful facility, inventive compositional strokes and refined taste, and Goethe, no less, directed several productions of his operas. Perhaps Cimarosa’s sheer fluency has told against his posthumous reputation: where to begin with 88 attractive sonatas? In his own booklet introduction, Andrea Chezzi explains that he has reviewed all of them and chosen 21 which seem particularly suitable for performance on the organ. He has ordered them to alternate slow and fast pieces, made marginal adjustments such as a few pedal doublings, and recorded them here on a historically appropriate instrument by Andrea Boschini (before 1755) and Giovanni Cavalletti (1814), located in the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine dello Spino, Brugneto di Reggiolo, in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. Andrea Chezzi’s previous recordings for Brilliant Classics have attracted glowing reviews, such as the Op.1 harpsichord sonatas by Baldassare Galuppi: ‘The performance by Chezzi is bold and decisive… with music that can excite the imagination, performed with grace and style by Chezzi. It also shows that Galuppi is more than just a pretty operatic face.’ (Fanfare)

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 Organ Sonata No. 54 in C Major 04:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 54 in C Major
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  2. 2 Organ Sonata No. 55 in A Minor 04:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 55 in A Minor
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  3. 3 Organ Sonata No. 50 in C Major 02:56
    Track
    3
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 50 in C Major
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  4. 4 Organ Sonata No. 33 in G Minor 01:41
    Track
    4
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 33 in G Minor
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  5. 5 Organ Sonata No. 32 in G Major 02:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 32 in G Major
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  6. 6 Organ Sonata No. 79 in D Minor 03:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 79 in D Minor
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  7. 7 Organ Sonata No. 30 in D Major 03:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 30 in D Major
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  8. 8 Organ Sonata No. 19 in A Major 02:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 19 in A Major
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  9. 9 Organ Sonata No. 58 in A Minor 01:47
    Track
    9
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 58 in A Minor
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  10. 10 Organ Sonata No. 21 in A Major 01:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 21 in A Major
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  11. 11 Organ Sonata No. 42 in D Minor 01:14
    Track
    11
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 42 in D Minor
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  12. 12 Organ Sonata No. 51 in G Major 03:21
    Track
    12
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 51 in G Major
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  13. 13 Organ Sonata No. 70 in B-Flat Minor 03:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 70 in B-Flat Minor
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  14. 14 Organ Sonata No. 61 in G Minor 03:06
    Track
    14
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 61 in G Minor
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  15. 15 Organ Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Major 03:38
    Track
    15
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  16. 16 Organ Sonata No. 52 in G Minor 03:54
    Track
    16
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 52 in G Minor
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  17. 17 Organ Sonata No. 53 in G Major 03:13
    Track
    17
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 53 in G Major
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  18. 18 Organ Sonata No. 49 in C Minor 02:27
    Track
    18
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 49 in C Minor
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  19. 19 Organ Sonata No. 28 in C Minor 03:30
    Track
    19
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 28 in C Minor
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  20. 20 Organ Sonata No. 37 in E-Flat Major 02:16
    Track
    20
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 37 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi
  21. 21 Organ Sonata No. 68 in C Minor 02:15
    Track
    21
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 68 in C Minor
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Domenico Cimarosa
    Performer
    Andrea Chezzi