Andrea Macinanti - Complete Organ Works 4 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With this double album, the world premiere recording of Marco Enrico Bossi's complete organ works, undertaken by Andrea Macinanti over 10 years ago, finally comes to an end. Same as the whole complete opera, this dutiful tribute to one of the great and forgotten composers of Italian twentieth century organ music ends on a series of historical instruments that fully document the musical aesthetics of the great organist. The repertoire includes transcriptions of famous pieces by great authors of the nineteenth-century, vocal and instrumental pieces with the original accompaniment of the organ, and some interesting unfinished organ fragments completed for the occasion by Maestro Paolo Geminani.

In weaving America's native culture and history, Philip Glass has created his own musical lineage. This album explores these ideas through his single most demanding piano piece, the ferocious, but lyrically meditative Piano Concerto No. 2 (after Lewis and Clark), as well as one of his most neglected, the mysterious A Secret Solo 2. Wichita Vortex Sutra, a joyful and transcendent study, is also heard in the version for narrator, with words by the poet Allen Ginsberg. From his experimental years comes Music in Contrary Motion with it's mesmerizing variety of pulse patterns. Nicolas Horvath is an unusual artist with an unconventional résumé. He began his music studies at the Académie de Musique Prince Rainier III de Monaco, and at the age 16, he caught the attention of the American conductor Lawrence Foster who helped him to secure a three-year scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation in order to further his studies. His mentors include a number of distinguished international pianists, including Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Gérard Frémy, Eric Heidsieck, Gabriel Tacchino, Nelson Delle-Vigne, Philippe Entremont, Oxana Yablonskaya and Liszt specialist Leslie Howard who helped to lay the foundations for Horvath's current recognition as a leading interpreter of Liszt's music. He is the holder of a number of awards, including First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions.

Andrea Macinanti - Complete Works for Organ [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/09/2007