Ponchielli: Complete Organ Music

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE
    • PERFORMER
      Marco Ruggeri
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421960197
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96019
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 1 in F Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    2. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 2. in G Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    3. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 3 in C Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    4. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 4 in A Minor

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    5. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 5 in G Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    6. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 6 in A Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    7. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 7 in F Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    8. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 8 in C Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    9. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 9 in C Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    10. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 10 in D Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    11. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 11 in G Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    12. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 12 in D Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    13. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 13 in F Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    14. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale No. 14 in C Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    15. Il Santo Natale: Pastorale in D Major - G Major

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    16. Il Santo Natale: Marcia funebre

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    17. Sinfonia Meta: I. —

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    18. L'annunzio ai pastori: Pastorale caratteristica

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    19. X. Ripieno

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    20. XI. Assai moderato

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    21. XI. Moderato

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    22. Per ripieno e per elevazione

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    23. XIII. Larghetto - Allegretto

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    24. XIV. Adagio

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    25. XII. Allegretto campestre

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    26. V. Fuga in Sol

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    27. VIII. Andante - Allegretto

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    28. IX. Versetto in Fa

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    29. II. Andante - Allegretto non tanto

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    30. III. Andante grave

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    31. IV. Allegro - Allegretto

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    32. VI. Andante mosso

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    33. VII. Allegro

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    34. Facile marcia

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    35. Omaggio a Donizetti: Prelude

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    36. Variazioni per cembalo (arr. for organ)

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri

    37. La Gioconda: Danza delle ore (arr. for organ)

      Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli

      Performer: Marco Ruggeri


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.