Giordano Noferini (1934-1977)
Toccata pour orgue

Sergio D'Aurizio (1929-2004)
Pezzo semplice, pour orgue

Giorgio Pressato (1945-)
In Excelsis Gloria, pour tromba et orgue
Ave Regina coelorum, pour orgue
Il Signore è il mio pastore, pour orgue

Roberto Becheri (1958-)
Cantantibus Chordis, pour violoncelle et orgue
In mei memoriam facietis, pour orgue
Postludio al Corale "Laudamus Te", pour orgue

Andrea Toschi (1956-)
Laudemus Te, pour choeur à 4 voix

Marc Giacone (1954-)
Pentapodie dalla Suite de Danse, pour orgue

Daniele Venturi (1971-)
Vision 21, pour flûte et orgue

Andrea Padova (1962-)
Kyrie eleison, pour orgue

Claudio Scannavini (1959-)
Masquerade, pour orgue

Andrea Toschi, orgue
Marco Tampieri, tromba
Luca Paccagnella, violoncelle
Daniele Ruggieri, flûte
Coro Accademia Nova
Edoardo Gioachin, direction

Ce disque réunit une petite dizaine de compositeurs italiens autour de pièces de musique contemporaine pour orgue – ce qui n’est pas le plus courant pour cet instrument, habituellement confiné au répertoire historique. Bien sûr, les pièces de Giordano Noferini (1934-1977) et Sergio D’Aurizio (1929-2004) s’ancrent principalement dans la tradition de la fin du 19ème siècle, mais "In excelsis Gloria per tromba e organo", écrit en 2009 par Giorgio Pressato (1945-), apporte, avec ses parties de trompette, une dimension supplémentaire, de même que le violoncelle dans "Cantantibus Chordis" de Roberto Becheri (1958-) ; même si j’ai une préférence pour la modernité de la démarche de crabe à cinq pattes de "Pentapodie dalla Suite de Dances" de Marc Giacone (1954-) – il trempe le pinceau de son inspiration dans les musiques africaines ; le rythme particulier et la répétition se chargeant de l’humour obsessif de la pièce –, ou l’écriture complexe (une flûte soprano complète l’orgue) de Daniele Venturi (1971-), qui communique au travers du doigté du soliste Andrea Toschi, un lyrisme mélancolique prenant. (Bernard Vincken)

The organist Andrea Toschi - already protagonist of several productions regarding rare music dedicated to the organ and harmonium, both as soloist and in chamber music ensembles (see Tactus tc810001, tc850004, tc870002 and tc890090) - is the common denominator of this collection of contemporary pieces for solo organ or for organ and instrument (trumpet, flute and cello alternate in duo with the organ). Composers in this cd include Sergio D’Aurizio, director of the Istituto Verdi of Ravenna and organist in Bologna, and Giordano Noferini, who was director of the Conservatorio of Bologna: they represent the musicians who were born in the first half of the twentieth century and were firmly connected to the late-nineteenth century tradition, which they reassessed paying attention to the harmonic aspect. The cd proceeds with Giorgio Pressato and Roberto Becheri: Toschi presents several pieces of theirs, in which Gregorian chant, the counterpoint devices, the relationship with the trumpet (as in Pressato’s In excelsis gloria), the relationship between diatonicism and chromaticism (as in In mei memoriam facietis by Becheri, who also uses the cello in Cantantibus chordis) are distinctive features that need to be carefully emphasised and smoothly blended: this is precisely what Toschi does in his interpretation. The most recent composers are Marc Giacone, Claudio Scannavini, Andrea Padova, and Daniele Venturi: in their music we can perceive an opening to stylistic influences other than the traditional ones: for instance African music in Giacone’s melodies, Scannavini’s use of perceptive deceit, the modern techniques adopted by Padova, and Venturi’s use of complexity as an element of composition.