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Pietro Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 / Tommaso Mazzoletti
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Pietro Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 / Tommaso Mazzoletti

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Composer
YON, PIETRO ALESSANDRO
Artist
Tommaso Mazzoletti
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 22, 2021
Catalog #
BRI95912
UPC
5028421959122

About

Pietro Yon (1886-1943) played in what is widely regarded as one of the finest-ever performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, conducted at Carnegie Hall in 1935 by Arturo Toscanini. Yon was sharing the stage with the likes of Elizabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza; he had acquired a comparable celebrity within the organ world in his lifetime, having emigrated from Italy to the US at the age of 21, and become Organist of St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the foremost seat of Catholicism in the US. A New York Times profile portrayed him as an adopted New Yorker who moved in high-society circles and enjoyed ragtime and vaudeville, and he welcomed the likes of Caruso and Toscanini to his home as friends. When he died in 1943, the world-famous conductor numbered among the 1300 mourners at St Patrick’s. Yon’s own music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavour reflecting his background without belonging to a single ‘school’. Christmas in Settimo Vittone or Rapsodia Italiana draw on his Piedmontese heritage. The trio of large-scale organ sonatas occupying the third album emerge from the virtuoso tradition of 19th-century keyboard writing exemplified by Liszt and translated to the organ by French contemporaries such as Guilmant and Vierne. Album 1 is dedicated to a collection of 12 Divertimenti including not only the Italian-themed character pieces mentioned above but also an expansive ‘American Rhapsody’ – like a transatlantic version of Howells, perhaps, sharing its chromatic harmony with the music of Leo Sowerby – and shorter study-like pieces which exploit the full range of colours available on the organ of St Patrick’s which he had extensively renovated and updated to reflect changing tastes, rather as Pierre Cochereau did at Notre-Dame in Paris.

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Rimembranza 04:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Rimembranza
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  2. 2 No. 2. Humoresque 02:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Humoresque
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  3. 3 No. 3. Elan du Coeur 05:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Elan du Coeur
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  4. 4 No. 4. Speranza (Hope) 05:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Speranza (Hope)
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  5. 5 No. 5. Minuetto antico e Musetta 03:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Minuetto antico e Musetta
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  6. 6 No. 6. Il Natale a Settimo Vittone 04:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Il Natale a Settimo Vittone
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  7. 7 No. 7. Echo (Double canon in unison) 02:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Echo (Double canon in unison)
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  8. 8 No. 8. Arpa Notturna 05:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Arpa Notturna
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  9. 9 No. 9. Rapsodia Italiana 08:23
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Rapsodia Italiana
    Duration
    08:23
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  10. 10 No. 10. American Rhapsody 12:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. American Rhapsody
    Duration
    12:28
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  11. 11 No. 11. Trio all'Ottava 02:28
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Trio all'Ottava
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  12. 12 No. 12. Cornamusa Siciliana 03:48
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Cornamusa Siciliana
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  13. 13 I. Introduzione e allegro 10:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Introduzione e allegro
    Duration
    10:25
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio
  14. 14 II. Adagio 04:57
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio
  15. 15 III. Scherzo 02:51
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Scherzo
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio
  16. 16 IV. Finale 10:10
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Finale
    Duration
    10:10
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio
  17. 17 Canto elegiaco 05:40
    Track
    17
    Title
    Canto elegiaco
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  18. 18 Toccata 07:15
    Track
    18
    Title
    Toccata
    Duration
    07:15
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  19. 19 Suite Umoresca, "La Concertina" 05:21
    Track
    19
    Title
    Suite Umoresca, "La Concertina"
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  20. 20 Elegia 05:23
    Track
    20
    Title
    Elegia
    Duration
    05:23
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  21. 21 No. 2. Concert Study 04:22
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. Concert Study
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  22. 22 No. 3. Second Concert Study 03:17
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. Second Concert Study
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  23. 23 I. Allegro rustico - Allegro vigoroso 08:12
    Track
    23
    Title
    I. Allegro rustico - Allegro vigoroso
    Duration
    08:12
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  24. 24 II. Adagio triste 03:26
    Track
    24
    Title
    II. Adagio triste
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  25. 25 III. Fantasia e fuga 07:40
    Track
    25
    Title
    III. Fantasia e fuga
    Duration
    07:40
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  26. 26 I. Allegro con spirito impetuoso 04:11
    Track
    26
    Title
    I. Allegro con spirito impetuoso
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  27. 27 II. Adagio, ma non troppo 05:18
    Track
    27
    Title
    II. Adagio, ma non troppo
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  28. 28 II. Minuetto 03:52
    Track
    28
    Title
    II. Minuetto
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  29. 29 IV. Tema e Variazioni 06:19
    Track
    29
    Title
    IV. Tema e Variazioni
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  30. 30 I. Introduzione ed Allegro 08:31
    Track
    30
    Title
    I. Introduzione ed Allegro
    Duration
    08:31
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  31. 31 II. Adagio 06:16
    Track
    31
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti
  32. 32 III. Finale 08:41
    Track
    32
    Title
    III. Finale
    Duration
    08:41
    Composer
    Pietro Alessandro Yon
    Performer
    Tommaso M. Mazzoletti