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International Organ Festival “Città Di Bergamo” September 27 - October 25 XXIEdition 2013 International Organ Festival “Città di Bergamo” September 27 - October 25 Under patronage of Comune di Bergamo PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO Assessorato alla Cultura e Spettacolo Assessorato alla Cultura Spettacolo Identità e Tradizioni supported by Comune di Bergamo PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO Cathedral of Bergamo The Festival history Parish of S.Alessandro della Croce The International Organ Festival “Città di Bergamo” was Parish of S.Maria Immacolata delle Grazie born at the beginning of the Nineties as a gamble among Parish of S.Alessandro in Colonna friends. Convinced of the need to bring to the town an international top circuit of concerts, especially considering the quality and variety of its organs, in 1992 the association Vecchia Bergamo organized a ‘test’ concert. Jean Guillou, one of the most famous contemporary players in the world and titular of the great organs at St. Eustache in Paris, was invited with a special mission: to introduce the improvisation on themes given by the audience in his program. As a matter of fact, this art which is considered as a fundamental pillar by all northern European organ Schools had practically disappeared from the Italian churches in the last fifty years. The clear goal was to show and consequently to measure the reactions of the public, on how much the interpreter’s capability in communicating his own unique feeling is of basic importance to create a larger popular interest around organ music, which up to that time was considered a specialists’ niche. The success was so great and enthusiastic that the year after the International Organ Festival started officially on the big Serassi organ at S.Alessandro della Croce in Pignolo: a perfect instrument, just restored, for portraying a wide range of music and, at the same time, for representing worthily the important organ builders’ tradition of our land. The guidelines and contents of the Festival were, and still are, the following: to focalize on the real actor of the event - the interpreter - with his skill in guiding the audience through emotions and spirituality; to systematically spread the improvisation, an art where the personality and ability of the player are joined in an unrepeatable moment, revealing the real soul of the musician; to invite top international artists, particularly those who are engaged in teaching plans or recording projects of well known interest; to introduce a young organist, winner of an important International Competition held the year before; to explore, with no inhibitions or limits, all the organ literatures, and under patronage of including contemporary music, and promoting forgotten or unknown composers. A key point of the immediate Festival success has been its strong didactic approach: we prepare for each concert detailed ‘guides for listening’, not the usual list of birth dates, names, places and so on, but a real explanation of the structures of the played pieces, their styles, and the historical links among them. “Città di Bergamo”- 2013 Few years later, in 1997, the municipality of Bergamo asked Vecchia Bergamo to expand the International Organ XXI International Organ Festival Festival to the whole town, donating the title “City of Bergamo”. Four churches among the most representative The XXI edition ones were selected for the qualities of the organs there preserved: Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Cathedral, After the sumptuous celebration of the twentieth S.Alessandro della Croce church, S.Maria Immacolata delle anniversary edition - which also involved a lot of Bergamo’s Grazie church. The reason of these choices is easy to organists into an exciting musical marathon - the understand: the characteristics of the instruments are very International Organ Festival “Città di Bergamo” comes different but complementary. They are the highest artistic back to the blocks start of a new season in its more expression in the town of four different Italian firms: two of traditional livery: 5 concerts in the 5 Friday of the first week- them, ancient, with mechanical action and pipes from the ends of autumn. XVIII century, are manufactured by the families Serassi and The overture, Friday September 27 in the Cathedral, on the Bossi, historical rivals in Bergamo; the other two, modern, recent Corna organ enriched by a new beautiful 4 with electrical action, by Vegezzi Bossi and Balbiani, keyboards console, is entrusted to one of the most represent the only sample in the town of the Romantic celebrated performers in the world, Philippe Lefebvre, titular Organ (S.Maria Maggiore) and of the Caecilian Organ organist since 1985 of Notre-Dame de Paris, in occasion of (S.Maria Immacolata delle Grazie). 850th anniversary of its founding. The first part of the program is titled to two charismatic figures of Notre-Dame Since 2004, the oldest organ of the city - a little portable through rare performances, as the whole Second Symphony one, manufactured by an anonymous in the second part of by Louis Vierne, titular there from 1900 to 1937, and the 2 the XVII century, at the Madonna del Giglio church, just percussion and organ transcribed improvisation by the restored - has been added, allowing the Festival to offer mythic Pierre Cochereau (1955-1984). In the second part more than four centuries of organ music. we face the two major substitutes of Vierne: Marcel Dupré (1914-1923) and Maurice Duruflé (1929-1931). But the Recently other two important instruments are available for most significant tribute to the peculiarities of Notre-Dame the Festival: the renewed Mascioni organ, built in 1906 at art is probably the final one, with the live improvisation, Alfredo Piatti Hall in the Conservatory of Bergamo, where discipline for which Lefebvre is considered an absolute particular ensembles or unusual artistic proposals can be reference. Seen the welcome support by the ‘International happily managed, and the dazzling totally new big Corna Piano Festival of Bergamo and Brescia’, due to its fiftieth organ, installed three years ago in Cathedral, based on a anniversary, we will propose to the audience a list of themes very interesting and original modern project. from famous concerts for Piano and Orchestra: the most This richness and variety of organs attract many foreign voted will be used by the master for his extemporary players and teachers too, choosing Bergamo as a performance. favourite place for holding visits and master classes The following Friday, October 4, we will host the Australian with their pupils. The ‘Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde’ organist and harpsichordist Brett Leighton, today (The Association of the Organ Friends), the biggest in considered one of the leading experts on ancient keyboard Europe with more than 6000 members, elected Bergamo music. The meeting will be at the small church of Beata as site of its annual week meeting in summer 2014 Vergine del Giglio, the magnificent temple that treasures (July 27 - August 2). the city’s oldest organ, a late 17 th century’s anonymous instrument with its characteristic mesotonic tuning. For the Currently the Organ Festival is one of the most loved and usual double date (6.30 and 9 p.m.), dictated by the little well attended musical attractions in Bergamo. Its reputation size of the church, Leighton proposes a recital of late is renowned in all Europe, and many foreign tourists often Renaissance music involving a quite rare instrument, the decide to spend a week-end in October for visiting our town cornetto, played by the expert Hans-Jakob Bollinger. due to the organ concerts. This English version of the official The musical pearls, for the joy of many fans of this genre, brochure has been conceived especially for them, and for all will be more than one, carried out in a context of great the non-Italian mother-tongue who wish to be introduced architectural and artistic influence, which faithfully into the magic world of Bergamo organs sound. reproduces the performance practices of that time. “Città di Bergamo”- 2013 “Città di Bergamo”- 2013 The International Organ Festival “Città di Bergamo” Improvisation will be dominant in the concert on Friday 11, strongly supports the nomination of Bergamo as in Santa Maria Immacolata delle Grazie, traditionally XXI International Organ Festival XXI International Organ Festival ‘European Capital of Culture 2019’. devoted to the presentation of a young winner of an International Competition. For the third consecutive year we encounter a phenomenon from the CSNM of Paris, not Program surprisingly considered one of the centers of excellence for the organ, and improvisation in particular: Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, who won in the last two years some very high-level competitions. Of the three improvised sections in Bergamo program, all in different styles and shapes, two Cathedral are dedicated to the celebration of the important Città Alta anniversaries of G.Verdi and R.Wagner: a funny way, not Friday, September 27 - 9 p.m. new for the Festival, to make memory of authors who, while out of the purely organ groove, have been of paramount Philippe Lefebvre (France) importance in the construction of the western musical language, an evolution still in progress, which will find meaningful contemporary evidence in the compositions of Beata Vergine del Giglio church J.Giraud and T.Escaich, both premiered in Bergamo. Via S.Alessandro With the fourth appointment - Friday, October 18 in Friday, October 4 - 6.30 and 9 p.m. S.Alessandro della Croce in Pignolo, where Marco Ruggeri will play the splendid organ Serassi 1860 - we will celebrate Hans-Jakob Bollinger (Switzerland) in the best way a double ‘local’ anniversary: the 250th of the Cornetto birth of Johann Simon Mayr, and the 150th of the death of Felice Moretti, alias Padre Davide da Bergamo, which Brett Leighton (Australia) means teacher and pupil in comparison. In fact everyone Organ knows that Mayr was the master of Gaetano Donizetti, but few of father Davide, the famous friar friend of Serassi family, with whom he has created the aesthetic of nineteenth S.Maria Immacolata delle Grazie church century Lombard organ and its proper literature.
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