The Historic Organ of Alari | Tactus TC600007

The Historic Organ of Alari

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC600007

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st August 2007

Contents

Artists

Emilio Traverso (organ)

Artists

Emilio Traverso (organ)

About

Music played on the Historic Organ of Alari (1773) of St. Matthew Abbey - Genova.

This recording presents a significant overview of Italian organ music composed between the 17th and 18th centuries, complemented by the history and the acoustic characteristics of this organ.

The program begins with the first Sonata by Ignazio Sperger, a composer who belongs to the Venetian school. He was born in Treviso, where he also worked as organ and harpsichord player, but his life cannot be fully documented. The only certain thing is that he wrote a lot of collections of organ Sonatas. Some of them were never published during his lifetime, but the others have been preserved as manuscripts in a number of italian libraries, such as that of Conservatorio “N. Paganini“ in Genoa.

Bernardo Pasquini is one of the most important Italian composers for organ and harspsichord. In his keyboard works, it is possible to see the transition from the modal to the tonal system occur. Before his transfer to Portugal and then to Spain, he worked for a number of years in Rome as music master of the Queen Mary Casimire of Poland and as organist in St. Peter Basilica.

The Alari organ is also perfect to play the pieces by Gaetano Valerj presented at the end if this recording. Valerj worked in Padova as musician and painter. He was very significant to this time, which was a period of transition, with the organ repertoire becoming more and more an imitation of the orchestra and the compositional style becoming increasingly operatic.

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