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Ponchielli: Complete Organ Music
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Ponchielli: Complete Organ Music

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Composer
PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE
Artist
Marco Ruggeri
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 03, 2020
Catalog #
BRI96019
UPC
5028421960197

About

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 neighboring 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'. In 2011 Ruggeri recorded roughly half of Ponchielli's organ output for the Bottega Discantia label, an album now superseded by this new recording made in 2017 and 2019. Never previously recorded are a collection of delightful Pastorales, as well as a funeral march in memory of his father, and a prelude to a cantata by Donizetti. However, there is one piece without which no self-regarding Ponchielli collection would be complete, and Marco Ruggeri includes it here as an encore: the 'Dance of the Hours' from La Gioconda, made eternally famous by Disney's troupe of dancing elephants.

Tracklist 37 tracks

  1. 1 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 1 in F Major 02:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 1 in F Major
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  2. 2 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 2. in G Major 03:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 2. in G Major
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  3. 3 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 3 in C Major 03:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 3 in C Major
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  4. 4 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 4 in A Minor 03:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 4 in A Minor
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  5. 5 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 5 in G Major 02:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 5 in G Major
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  6. 6 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 6 in A Major 01:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 6 in A Major
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  7. 7 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 7 in F Major 03:01
    Track
    7
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 7 in F Major
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  8. 8 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 8 in C Major 02:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 8 in C Major
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  9. 9 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 9 in C Major 02:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 9 in C Major
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  10. 10 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 10 in D Major 02:14
    Track
    10
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 10 in D Major
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  11. 11 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 11 in G Major 03:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 11 in G Major
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  12. 12 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 12 in D Major 03:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 12 in D Major
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  13. 13 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 13 in F Major 04:05
    Track
    13
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 13 in F Major
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  14. 14 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 14 in C Major 02:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 14 in C Major
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  15. 15 Il Santo Natale: Pastorale in D Major - G Major 03:29
    Track
    15
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Pastorale in D Major - G Major
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  16. 16 Il Santo Natale: Marcia funebre 05:46
    Track
    16
    Title
    Il Santo Natale: Marcia funebre
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  17. 17 Sinfonia Meta: I. — 05:41
    Track
    17
    Title
    Sinfonia Meta: I. —
    Duration
    05:41
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  18. 18 L'annunzio ai pastori: Pastorale caratteristica 04:28
    Track
    18
    Title
    L'annunzio ai pastori: Pastorale caratteristica
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  19. 19 X. Ripieno 02:54
    Track
    19
    Title
    X. Ripieno
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  20. 20 XI. Assai moderato 03:34
    Track
    20
    Title
    XI. Assai moderato
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  21. 21 XI. Moderato 02:21
    Track
    21
    Title
    XI. Moderato
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  22. 22 Per ripieno e per elevazione 02:35
    Track
    22
    Title
    Per ripieno e per elevazione
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  23. 23 XIII. Larghetto - Allegretto 04:12
    Track
    23
    Title
    XIII. Larghetto - Allegretto
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  24. 24 XIV. Adagio 02:42
    Track
    24
    Title
    XIV. Adagio
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  25. 25 XII. Allegretto campestre 02:52
    Track
    25
    Title
    XII. Allegretto campestre
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  26. 26 V. Fuga in Sol 02:26
    Track
    26
    Title
    V. Fuga in Sol
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  27. 27 VIII. Andante - Allegretto 04:38
    Track
    27
    Title
    VIII. Andante - Allegretto
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  28. 28 IX. Versetto in Fa 01:03
    Track
    28
    Title
    IX. Versetto in Fa
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  29. 29 II. Andante - Allegretto non tanto 03:38
    Track
    29
    Title
    II. Andante - Allegretto non tanto
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  30. 30 III. Andante grave 02:41
    Track
    30
    Title
    III. Andante grave
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  31. 31 IV. Allegro - Allegretto 03:36
    Track
    31
    Title
    IV. Allegro - Allegretto
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  32. 32 VI. Andante mosso 01:47
    Track
    32
    Title
    VI. Andante mosso
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  33. 33 VII. Allegro 01:22
    Track
    33
    Title
    VII. Allegro
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  34. 34 Facile marcia 02:02
    Track
    34
    Title
    Facile marcia
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  35. 35 Omaggio a Donizetti: Prelude 02:21
    Track
    35
    Title
    Omaggio a Donizetti: Prelude
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  36. 36 Variazioni per cembalo (arr. for organ) 08:14
    Track
    36
    Title
    Variazioni per cembalo (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    08:14
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri
  37. 37 La Gioconda: Danza delle ore (arr. for organ) 08:49
    Track
    37
    Title
    La Gioconda: Danza delle ore (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    08:49
    Composer
    Amilcare Ponchielli
    Performer
    Marco Ruggeri