21 Organ Sonatas - Francesco Mazzonetto - Music - BRILLIANT CLASSICS - 5028421957814 - January 3, 2020
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21 Organ Sonatas

Francesco Mazzonetto

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21 Organ Sonatas

Brilliant Classics has already published all 88 of Domenico Cimarosa's keyboard sonatas in their commonly encountered appearance as harpsichord pieces (BC95027), as well as an album of 30 sonatas in arrangements for guitar (BC94172). He may still be better known as a composer of comic opera, for masterpiece such as Il matrimonio segreto, but this new album of the sonatas in versions for organ celebrates the variety and adaptability of Cimarosa's idiom and demonstrates why he was so lionized in his own time. The painter Delacroix preferred Cimarosa's music to Mozart's. Stendhal wrote that he would rather be hanged than be forced to state which of the two he preferred. Even the notoriously partial Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick lavished praise on Cimarosa's wonderful facility, inventive compositional strokes and refined taste, and Goethe, no less, directed several productions of his operas. Perhaps Cimarosa's sheer fluency has told against his posthumous reputation: where to begin with 88 attractive sonatas? In his own booklet introduction, Andrea Chezzi explains that he has reviewed all of them and chosen 21 which seem particularly suitable for performance on the organ. He has ordered them to alternate slow and fast pieces, made marginal adjustments such as a few pedal doublings, and recorded them here on a historically appropriate instrument by Andrea Boschini (before 1755) and Giovanni Cavalletti (1814), located in the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine dello Spino, Brugneto di Reggiolo, in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. Andrea Chezzi's previous recordings for Brilliant Classics have attracted glowing reviews, such as the Op.1 harpsichord sonatas by Baldassare Galuppi: 'The performance by Chezzi is bold and decisive... with music that can excite the imagination, performed with grace and style by Chezzi. It also shows that Galuppi is more than just a pretty operatic face.' (Fanfare)


ANDREA CHEZZI

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Composer Domenico Cimarosa
Released January 3, 2020
EAN/UPC 5028421957814
Label BRILLIANT CLASSICS BRLT95781.2
Genre Organ Music
Dimensions 125 × 143 × 9 mm   ·   99 g
Soloist Andrea Chezzi

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