The programme recorded in this Cd shows the marvellous versatility of the Baroque organ, bringing to the keyboard a multiplicity of genres and forms. Thus from the interpreter’s fingers flow forms strictly for the organ like the prelude and the fugue, seventeenth century legacies like  the canzona and the aria con variazioni, and the two principal genres of instrumental Baroque music: the sonata and the concerto. Compositions not always born for the organ or for the solo organ, but easily adapted for it, thanks to the capacity of the instrument to express the abstract architectonic structures of Baroque strumental music, in a constant and fertile tension between grandiosuty and intimacy, cantabilità and counterpoint, exuberance and contemplation.

STR33836
in coproduction with
RSI - Rete 2

MAURIZIO CROCI
plays the Antegnati (1588) - Chiesa (1793) – Bossi (1816) organ of the Collegiata church in Bellinzona (CH)

 

Johann Sebastian Bach
1.- 2. Fantasia e Fuga in La minore, BWV 904
Georg Friederich Hændel
3.- 6. Sonata in Fa maggiore, HG II, 1720
Domenico Scarlatti
7. Sonata in Re maggiore, K 287 [Per Organo da Camera con due Tastature]
8. Sonata in Re maggiore, K 282
Johann Sebastian Bach
9. Canzona in Re minore, BWV 588
Georg Friederich Hændel
10. Preludio e Sonata in Sol minore, HG II/iii/9
Domenico Scarlatti
11. Sonata in Sol maggiore, K 304
12. Sonata in Do maggiore, K 79
Johann Sebastian Bach
13.- 23. Aria variata alla man[iera] italiana, BWV 989
Georg Friederich Hændel
24. 27. Concerto in Fa maggiore, op. IV/5, trascr. John Walsh, 1738

Organists’ Review 2010, Editor’s Choice

“This really is a delightful CD and Croci, who has an excellent pedigree, (...), shapes the music with his apt registrations, especially in Bach’s Aria variata alla maniera italiana where the ten short variations illustrate this superb organ so very well. (...) Overall a gem of a CD.”

Andrew Palmer