Lester Flatt - Double Pak - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On his latest adventure into little-known reaches of organ repertoire, Matteo Venturini travels to 19th-century Florence and brings back three little-known composers. He opens with a quartet of liturgical voluntaries by Padre Antonio Casini, notable for their fluid brilliance. Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata (1807-1881) was a more significant figure in Florentine musical life who trained in law but composed sacred music throughout his career. These Twelve Short Exercises were designed for use by the students of the newly founded organ school in Florence. Limpid and classical in style, they exploit the full range of colours available on new Italian organs of the period. Casamorata's Organ Mass develops it's ideas in more relaxed fashion, less reliant on counterpoint than concerned to accompany the liturgy in a spirit of solemn devotion. Giovacchino Maglioni (1814-1888) was another composer and administrator who significantly contributed to the renewal of liturgical music against the prevailing fashion for opera. Matteo Venturini has chosen three excerpts from the third part of his Istituzioni Teorico-Pratiche per Organo from the 1870s; in character they comprise a missing link between the sunny extroversion of much operatically influenced instrumental writing of the period and the more sober aesthetic of the Cecilian movement. To capture the original soundscape and spirit of these pieces as envisaged by their composers, organist Matteo Venturini has selected two instruments of the period for this recording. With it's brilliant, direct voice, the monumental organ at Corsanico (Vincenzo Colonna 1606 / Agati-Tronci 1899) lends itself perfectly to the bright colours of Casini's music. The organ in the Basilica di Santa Maria di Nazareth in Sestri Levante (built by Fratelli Serassi, 1832), with it's intriguing solo register sound and magnificent tutti voices, was chosen for the

French composer Marin Marais (1656-1728) was one of the greatest French composers of the Baroque. He was probably the greatest of all Baroque composers in terms of his compositions for viola da gamba. Laura Jeppesen and Catherine Liddell are among the finest American artists at their respective instruments. Laura Jeppesen received a master's degree from Yale University and subsequently studied the viola da gamba at the Hamburg Hochschule and the Brussels Conservatory. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Designate, a Fulbright Scholar, and a fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard. A prominent member of Boston's early music community, she has long associations with The Boston Museum Trio, Boston Baroque, The Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Early Music Festival and Aston Magna. Catherine Liddell is much in demand for her sensitivity and skill as a continuo player on theorbo and lute and has appeared with many of the leading period instrument ensembles in the U.S., including the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, and the New York Collegium. Album Tracks 1. Prélude en harpègement 2. Prélude in a minor 3. Pièces de viole, Book 5, Suite No. 1 in A minor~Prélude, Le Soligni 4. Pièces de viole, Book 5, Suite No. 1 in A minor~Allemande la facile 5. Pièces de viole, Book 5, Suite No. 1 in A minor~Sarabande 6. Pièces de viole, Book 5, Suite No. 1 in A minor~Rondeau moitié pincé 7. Rèveuse 8. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Prélude 9. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Allemande et double 10. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Sarabande 11. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Courante et double 12. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Gavotte en rondeau 13. Pièces de viole, Book 3, Suite No. 8 in C major~Saillie du café 14. Troilleu

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. Hard Travelin' 2. Dixie Home 3. The Wreck of the Old 97 4. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse 5. Drowned in the Deep Blue Sea 6. Coal Miner's Blues 7. Pastures of Plenty 8. The Ballad of Jed Clampett 9. My Native Home 10. When I Left East Virginia 11. 99 Years Is Almost for Life 12. Bound to Ride