Angelo Cavallo - Italian Baroque Concertos (2019)

The aphorism attributed to Pablo Picasso is perfectly suited to the spirit of this album, an expressive experience in which the performers try their hand at transcribed pieces, originally designed for other organists, for timbres not belonging to the sound sphere that is heard in this work. Why steal and transcribe original music written for string orchestra, oboe, keyboard adaptations of orchestral compositions? The answer is simple and lies in the enhancement of the universal works of art contained between the lines of the original staves. The transcription operation is not only a considerable tribute to the composer of the original music, but above all a sound laboratory in which it is possible to explore new potential that the same musical material, even in cases where it was conceived in a strictly idiomatic way, can be rendered in an equally effective way, decidedly fresh and completely relevant from an artistic point of view, above all after having undergone the manipulations of which the transcription is used to translate the source material.