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

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 22, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      YON, PIETRO ALESSANDRO
    • PERFORMER
      Tommaso Mazzoletti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 22, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421959122
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95912
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Rimembranza

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    2. No. 2. Humoresque

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    3. No. 3. Elan du Coeur

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    4. No. 4. Speranza (Hope)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    5. No. 5. Minuetto antico e Musetta

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    6. No. 6. Il Natale a Settimo Vittone

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    7. No. 7. Echo (Double canon in unison)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    8. No. 8. Arpa Notturna

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    9. No. 9. Rapsodia Italiana

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    10. No. 10. American Rhapsody

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    11. No. 11. Trio all'Ottava

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    12. No. 12. Cornamusa Siciliana

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    13. I. Introduzione e allegro

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    14. II. Adagio

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    15. III. Scherzo

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    16. IV. Finale

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti, Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    17. Canto elegiaco

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    18. Toccata

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    19. Suite Umoresca, "La Concertina"

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    20. Elegia

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    21. No. 2. Concert Study

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    22. No. 3. Second Concert Study

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    23. I. Allegro rustico - Allegro vigoroso

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    24. II. Adagio triste

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    25. III. Fantasia e fuga

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    26. I. Allegro con spirito impetuoso

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    27. II. Adagio, ma non troppo

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    28. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    29. IV. Tema e Variazioni

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    30. I. Introduzione ed Allegro

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    31. II. Adagio

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    32. III. Finale

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti


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.