L'Orgue Soliste - Music for Organ & Orchestra

Bossi, Marco Enrico, Jongen, Joseph, Poulenc, Francis, różni kompozytorzy

Carmona, Eugène, Helvetica Orchestra, Mazzoletti, Tommaso

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This new recording presents three major works for organ and orchestra by Bossi, Jongen and Poulenc.

Marco Enrico Bossi was a composer of great personality whose thoroughly international outlook distinguished him from most of his Italian colleagues of his time. He was greatly admired by Verdi and Puccini, and as a concert organist and composer he was considered one of the foremost virtuosos of the period, along with his friends César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns. His composition style is based on the abstract and “absolute” aesthetics of Hanslick and Brahms, concentrating on purely instrumental music, unlike most of his contemporaries, who wrote dramatic or programmatic music.

Joseph Jongen (1873 -1953) was a Belgian organist, composer and music teacher. He was a composer who is time and again measured only second to César Franck among all Belgian composers. The organ, in the piece 'Hymne', is less of a 'soloist', merging with the warm sound of the orchestra, dialoguing and blending into the colourful textures typical of Jongen's impressionistic language.

The Organ Concerto by Francis Poulenc is one of his most popular and frequently performed works.

Played by Tommaso Mazzoletti on the splendid Brondino Vegezzi-Bossi organ at St. Paul, protestant church in Gland, Switzerland, accompanied by the Helvetica Orchestra conducted by Eugène Carmona.

Works:

•Bossi, M E: Organ Concerto in A minor, Op. 100
•Jongen: Hymne for organ and orchestra, Op. 78
•Poulenc: Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani

CD x 1

Brilliant Classics

7/4/23

5028421969558