Organ Concert

Giovanni Feltrin (TV), organo

PROGRAM

THE BEST WIN!
Famous musical challenges told on the organ

The program recalls some musical duels between legendary keyboard virtuosos. The stakes are different: for Andrea Gabrieli, opposed to Claudio Merulo, winning means obtaining the position of Second Organist of the Basilica of S. Marco in Venice; the Germans Haendel and Mattheson, on the other hand, aspire to become Buxtehude's successors in the church of S. Maria in Lubeck, but there is an unexpected and unwelcome clause.
Challenges of pure skill on the instrument are those organized between Bach and Marchand, champions of Germany and France; and again between Clementi and Mozart.
You win or you lose, sometimes you draw.
The important thing is to participate, someone will say later, but there are those who prefer a strategic retreat to a resounding (it should be said) defeat.
Among these musical duels a technological one insinuates itself, which at the end of the 18th century pits the organ builders Serassi and Callido against each other: the first intends to make an organ play through an underground mechanical system 33 meters long. The second is certain that he will fail, and bets his head: will he have done well?

A. Gabrieli (1510-1585) 
Canzon ariosa

C. Merulo (1533-1604)
Passemezzo

J. Mattheson (1681-1764)  
Corrente in re minore

G.F. Händel (1685-1759) 
Allegro (dal Concerto “Il cucù e l’usignolo”)

L. Marchand (1669-1732)
Fond d'Orgue - Basse de trompette

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733

A. Luchesi (1741-1801)
Sonata in fa maggiore

P. Fumagalli (1830-1900)
La tranquillità

M. Clementi (1752-1832)
Monferrina op. 49 n. 7

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata da chiesa KV 244