Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Tactus
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8007194106640
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Gaetano Amadeo
Description
This CD is aimed at rediscovering Gaetano Amadeo, original organist and composer from Porto Maurizio (today's city of Imperia). Born in the early nineteenth century, he was immediately noted for his great predisposition to music, so much that he was sent to the famous opera composer Giovanni Pacini, who, recognizing the value of the boy, sent him to the Bologna Philharmonic Lyceum; soon afterwards Gioachino Rossini himself will introduce him to the prestigious Philharmonic Academy of the same city. With the precious qualifications achieved, Amadeo returns to his hometown starting his career as organist and organ tester (working with the organ makers Lingiardi) until 1848, when he moved to France, a country that will become his second homeland. In France he worked in Cannes, Marseille and Nice; he meets the great French organ makers Cavaillé-Coll and start developing the French music style, understanding far in advance (as several of his letters testify to us) that the Italian organ world linked to the theatrical/opera style would soon go down. For the performance of his works, Maestro Fabio Merlini uses the massive Lingiardi / Vegezzi Bossi / Bonizzi instrument of the Basilica of St. Giovanni in Imperia, whose richness of tonal resources is well suited to represent the nuances of Amadeo’s music including his Ave Maria with Gabrielle Mouhlen’s voice.
Tracklisting
Luca Salvadori
Andrea Macinanti
Cappella Artemisia
Coro Euridice Di Bologna
Matteo Mencarelli; Filippo Farinelli
Davide Rebuffa; Luca Guglielmi; Nicola Brovelli
Walter Zanetti; Monica Paolini
Oliver Wass; Pelleas Ensemble; Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro; Ensemble APM; Luca Vacchetti
David Lively
Bill Hawkes & Shaun Lyon
Mahler Academy Orchestra; Philipp von Steinaecker
Various Artists
Yulianna Avdeeva
Simon Trpceski; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Plamena Nikitassova; Les Elemens
Patrick Him, Kirsten Docter, Shuai Want, John Diodati, Paul Vaillancourt, Catherine Ramirez, Jennet
