Yon - Complete Organ Music Vol.2
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96202
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th September 2022
Contents
Artists
Tommaso Mazzoletti (organ)Artists
Tommaso Mazzoletti (organ)About
Yon’s music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavour 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. CD 1 concludes with a pair of Easter-themed works, while CD 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. ‘As a performer and composer who played the organ for concerts as well as church services, he had the flair of an entrepreneur and a personality that I have always found to be particularly appealing. All his compositions are highly refined, but also imbued with a poetic, melancholy vein. Yet for all the skill and creativity that they unquestionably reveal, there is also a touch of humour that is utterly engaging.’
This album was recorded on a new organ by the Brondino Vegezzi-Bossi firm, installed at St Paul protestant church in Gland, Switzerland and inaugurated in 2021 by Mazzoletti as the church’s titular organist. The booklet also includes a full specification and photographs of the organ.
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