Andrea Macinanti - Bossi: Opera omnia per Organo, Vol. 7 (2012)

This is the seventh release of the “Opera Omnia” of Marco Enrico Bossi, the great Italian organist and composer who lived and worked around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. As with the previous recordings in the series the performer is Andrea Macinanti, this time playing the organ of the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore in Cuneo.

Volume 7 of the Complete Organ Works by Marco Enrico Bossi contains music written between 1906 and 1910, during the period in which he was the principal of the Liceo Musicale of Bologna. The programme begins with the extensive Pièce héroïque op. 128, and continues with the powerful Konzertstück op. 130. The survey ends with Cinque pezzi in stile libero (Five Pieces in a free style) which were composed around 1910.

Like the previous discs, the organ that Andrea Macinanti plays on this recording is one that belonged to Bossi’s musical world, in this case an instrument made in 1897 by Carlo Vegezzi- Bossi for the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore of Cuneo.