Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 2 / Mazzoletti

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 23, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Pietro Yon
    • PERFORMER
      Tommaso Mazzoletti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 23, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421962023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96202
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduzione e allegro

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    3. III. Scherzo

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    4. IV. Finale

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    5. Cristo Trionfante

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    6. Hymn of Glory, IPY 14

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    7. 3 Compositions for Organ: No. 1. Prelude-Pastorale: Dies est lætitæ

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    8. Pastorale Sorrentina

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    9. Marche Pastorale (Shepherd's March)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    10. Organ Sonata, No. 4, "Pastorale"

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    11. Christmas in Sicily

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    12. I. Prelude (Rorate Coeli)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    13. II. Introit (Veni Emmanuel)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    14. III. Offertory - Veni Domine (Hymn for Peace)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    15. IV. Communion (Ave Maria)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    16. V. Finale: Toccata on the Gregorian Hymn "Creator alme siderum"

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti

    17. Gesù bambino (arr. for organ)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Performer: Tommaso M. Mazzoletti


A New York Times profile of Pietro Yon (1886-1943) 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, where the Italian émigré Yon had become director of music in 1929. Yon’s music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavor reflecting his background without belonging to a single ‘school’. He composed over 70 Mass settings and major works, including the oratorio The Triumph of St. Patrick which premiered at Carnegie Hall. Among his most popular works at the time was a Concerto Gregoriano for organ and orchestra, later rearranged for organ and piano and then solo organ, in which version Tommaso Mazzoletti performs it here.

Album 1 concludes with a pair of Easter-themed works, while album 2 features Christmas music including an Advent Suite, some gentle pastorales and finally the Gesù Bambino song which travelled the world in performances and recordings by Luciano Pavarotti, as well as countless other arrangements such as the solo-organ version played here. This album marks the climax of a seven-year project in which the Italian organist Tommaso Mazzoletti has become the world’s foremost exponent of his countryman’s music. As Mazzoletti remarks in his booklet essay, Yon knew exactly what his audiences enjoyed, and was prepared to experiment, rediscover and astonish.