Andrea Toschi - Opere per organo solo e per organo e strumento (2024)

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Title: Opere per organo solo e per organo e strumento
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Tactus
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet) 16-Bit (64.4%); 24-Bit (35.6%)
Total Time: 1:05:23
Total Size: 556 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Toccata
02. Contemplazione. Andante mistico
03. Pezzo semplice
04. In excelsis Gloria
05. Ave Regina coelorum
06. Il Signore è il mio pastore
07. Cantantibus Chordis
08. In mei memoriam facietis
09. Laudamus Te
10. Postludio al Corale “Laudamus Te”
11. Pentapodie dalla Suite de Dances
12. Vision 21
13. Kyrie Eleison
14. Masquerade

The organist Andrea Toschi - already protagonist of several productions regarding rare music dedicated to the organ and harmonium, both as soloist and in chamber music ensembles (see Tactus tc810001, tc850004, tc870002 and tc890090) - is the common denominator of this collection of contemporary pieces for solo organ or for organ and instrument (trumpet, flute and cello alternate in duo with the organ). Composers in this cd include Sergio D’Aurizio, director of the Istituto Verdi of Ravenna and organist in Bologna, and Giordano Noferini, who was director of the Conservatorio of Bologna: they represent the musicians who were born in the first half of the twentieth century and were firmly connected to the late-nineteenth century tradition, which they reassessed paying attention to the harmonic aspect. The cd proceeds with Giorgio Pressato and Roberto Becheri: Toschi presents several pieces of theirs, in which Gregorian chant, the counterpoint devices, the relationship with the trumpet (as in Pressato’s In excelsis gloria), the relationship between diatonicism and chromaticism (as in In mei memoriam facietis by Becheri, who also uses the cello in Cantantibus chordis) are distinctive features that need to be carefully emphasised and smoothly blended: this is precisely what Toschi does in his interpretation. The most recent composers are Marc Giacone, Claudio Scannavini, Andrea Padova, and Daniele Venturi: in their music we can perceive an opening to stylistic influences other than the traditional ones: for instance African music in Giacone’s melodies, Scannavini’s use of perceptive deceit, the modern techniques adopted by Padova, and Venturi’s use of complexity as an element of composition.