Organ Concert

Giovanni Feltrin (TV), organ

In collaboration with Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia Martiri in Grions del Torre (UD) and with Povoletto Municipality (UD)

PROGRAM

MAY THE BEST WIN!
Famous musical challenges told on the organ

The program recalls some musical duels, which saw legendary keyboard virtuosos face each other. The stakes are different: for Andrea Gabrieli, opposite Claudio Merulo, winning means obtaining the position of Second Organist of the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice; the Germans Handel and Mattheson instead aspire to become Buxtehude's successors in the church of S. Maria in Lübeck, 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 must be said) defeat.
Among these musical disputes a technological one creeps in, which at the end of the 18th century pits the organ builders Serassi and Callido against each other: the former intends to make an organ play through an underground mechanical system 33 meters long. The second is certain that he will fail, and he bets his head on it: did he do 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