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L'organo Manzoni 1891 di Bienno
MV Cremona

L'organo Manzoni 1891 di Bienno

$19.99

Details

Composer
Davide Da Bergamo, Costanzo Antegnati, Theodore Dubois, Georg Bohm, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastia
Artist
Marco Ruggeri
Format
CD
Label
MV Cremona
Released
Apr 26, 2024
Catalog #
MVC023064
UPC
8032632230649

About

The Italian organist Marco Ruggeri offers in this CD a compilation of pieces by various author, chosen to enhance the acoustic qualities of the wonderful historical organ of the church of SS. Faustino and Giovita in Bienno. It dates back to around 1630. At that period Graziadio IV Antegnati (1608-1657) creates a 16-foot organ with an enharmonic keyboard with certainly 4 and possibly 5 broken keys for the Benedictine monks running the parish. In 1750 the instrument is restored, moreover, the organ choirs are replaced with others of a typically Baroque style while the organ case is preserved. Antegnati's organ still exists in 1822 when the scholarly Giacomo Simoni sends one of the Serassi brothers to Bienno recommending that all recoverable Antegnati material must be preserved, yet no agreement is reached. A few years later, an unknown organ builder adds typically 19th-century stops. Finally in 1891, according to the 1881 project, the organ builder Giovanni Manzoni of Bergamo, who had previously worked with Bossi and for a short time with Perolini brothers, restores and expands the organ. He initially works out a two-manual project, later he reduces the instrument to a single keyboard with 47 stops and 1823 pipes. The new structure includes also the 155 Antegnati pipes scattered in different stops, as well as 18 Principale pipes in an almost perfect succession and they confirm the original division. The latter group is moved to the 'organetti morti' (pipes placed in the upper part of the facade). The seventeenth-century case is totally preserved. In 1943 Armando Maccarinelli from Brescia carries out an extraordinary maintenance and remixes some stops. In 1961 Emilio Piccinelli of Ponteranica - without knowing Manzoni's project, found in the parish archive only years later - makes a radical restoration yet very respectful of the 1891 physiognomy. In 2017/2018 the Piccinelli family carries out a philological restoration bringing back the instrument to the exact conditions of 1891, on the precise indications from the Milan 'Servizio Tutela Organi'. The intervention is completed for the larger part by rearranging the pipes, recovering the material set aside and only with the reconstruction of 12 pipes of Cello.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Sinfonia in D for Organ 10:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    Sinfonia in D for Organ
    Duration
    10:10
    Composer
    Davide Maria da Bergamo
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  2. 2 Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele 12:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele
    Duration
    12:10
    Composer
    Georg Böhm
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  3. 3 Toccata in D Major, BWV 912 10:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Toccata in D Major, BWV 912
    Duration
    10:29
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  4. 4 15 Canzoni alla francese: No. 11. La Capitania 02:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    15 Canzoni alla francese: No. 11. La Capitania
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Costanzo Antegnati
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  5. 5 12 Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, maman in C Major, K. 265 (arr. for organ) 09:24
    Track
    5
    Title
    12 Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, maman in C Major, K. 265 (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  6. 6 6 Kinderstücke, Op. 133: No. 5. Bagatelle (arr. for organ) 02:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    6 Kinderstücke, Op. 133: No. 5. Bagatelle (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Marco Enrico Bossi
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  7. 7 Album per la Gioventù, Op. 122: No. 8. Berceuse (arr. for organ) 01:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    Album per la Gioventù, Op. 122: No. 8. Berceuse (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Marco Enrico Bossi
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  8. 8 11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen 02:22
    Track
    8
    Title
    11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  9. 9 24 Pieces en style libre, Op. 31: No. 15. Arabesque 04:45
    Track
    9
    Title
    24 Pieces en style libre, Op. 31: No. 15. Arabesque
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Louis Vierne
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  10. 10 12 Pieces nouvelles: No. 8. Fiat Lux 04:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    12 Pieces nouvelles: No. 8. Fiat Lux
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Théodore Dubois
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri