Andrea Macinanti - Bossi: Opera omnia per Organo, Vol. 6 (2012)

On this new CD, the sixth volume in a series of the complete organ works of the Italian composer Marco Enrico Bossi, Andrea Macinanti performs music written by the composer over a period of about 20 years of his career during the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries. The music includes the two sets of Three Pieces, opus 74 and 97, the Three Studies dal Metodo Teorico-Pratico, opus 105, and Five Pieces, opus 113.

For this recording organist Andrea Macinanti has chosen to play on three instruments by Pacifico Inzoli, Vincenzo Mascioni and William George Trice, all of which were built during the composer’s working life. In his booklet notes Macinanti examines the work of these three important organ makers, mentioning in particular the great respect Bossi had for Trice to whom he dedicated his Metodo per organo dated 1893. This is the latest in a series of CDs from Tactus of the complete works of Marco Enrico Bossi which are being released to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.