An anthology of recent compositions for organ, written during the last seven decades, is showcased here on the new Dell’Orto & Lanzini organ (2011) at the Madonna di Fatima Parish Church in the town of Pinerolo, near Turin in Italy’s Piedmont region. Yet this exiting new material is not without acknowledgement of the past, as some of the selected pieces pay homage to styles, musical languages and composers of yesteryear. Likewise the organ, though newly constructed, is modelled on those crafted by celebrated 17th-century builder Arp Schnitger, whose instruments abounded in the Hanseatic area of northern Europe during the Baroque era.
Works:
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Danksagmüller: Cantio ‘O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid’ imitatione Tremula Organi
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Danksagmüller: Cantio imitatio tremula organi
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Eben: Hommage à Buxtehude (1987)
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Essl, J: Dialoge, Op.16: Capriccio sopra la serenità
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Fitkin, G: Watching
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Foccroulle: O Quam pulchra es
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Levi, A B: Peces per a orgue: No. 5 Nit estelade
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Levi, A B: Peces per a orgue: No. 6 Cap a la lluna
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Levi, A B: Pieces (6)
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Ligeti: Musica Ricercata for piano
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Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 11
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Ligeti: Musica Ricercata No. 3
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Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 8
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Matter: Fantaisie sur ‘Une jeune fillette’
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Pärt: Pari intervallo
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Peretti: Florete flores
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Venturi: Mintaka