Giorgio Federico Ghedini - Pizzetti & Ghedini: Opere corali sacre - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With this new album, the Euridice Choir, Bologna achieves a major objective with regard to the divulgation of some choral works by two authors, Ildebrando Pizzetti (Parma 1880 - Rome 1968) and Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Cuneo 1892 - Genoa Nervi 1965), who are at the top of the history of 20th century Italian choral music; unfortunately most of these masterpieces seldom find place in concert programs and are, by consequence, little known. These compositions are set on very different stylistic sides) but their musical quality outlines a clear profile of the expressive depth and aesthetic consistency of Italian choral music from the early 1900. The imposing polyphonic structure of Pizzetti's Requiem and the Inchneo-MadrigalismInch (as defined by Massimo Mila) adopted by Giorgio Federico Ghedini are based respectively on the suggestions of Gregorian chant and on the stylistic modules of the Renaissance compositional heritage, whose recovery constitutes the founding cornerpiece of this music. Album Tracks 1. Messa di Requiem~Requiem 2. Messa di Requiem~Dies iræ 3. Messa di Requiem~Sanctus 4. Messa di Requiem~Agnus Dei 5. Messa di Requiem~Libera me 6. Ave verum corpus 7. Due canti sacri per il Sabato Santo~Maria lavava 8. Due canti sacri per il Sabato Santo~Dove vai, Madonna mia 9. Fiorito è Cristo nella carne pura 10. Due mottetti per un tempo di penitenza~Peccantem me quotidie 11. Due mottetti per un tempo di penitenza~Timor et tremor 12. Tre Responsori per il Sabato Santo~Reccessit pastor noster 13. Tre Responsori per il Sabato Santo~O vos omnes 14. Tre Responsori per il Sabato Santo~Ecce quomodo moritur iustus