VINCENZO ANTONIO PETRALI (1830-1889): Messe Solenne in F, Pastorale per l’Elevazione, Sonata per la Comunione in A, Andante per l’Elevazione, Marcia per dopo la Messa, from Studi per l’Organo: Book 2, Study 15 “per l'organo semplice and No. 50 “per il Ripieno (selection).

Description: We offered a 6-CD set of Petrali’s complete organ works seven years ago (10P039) so this is for someone who might want a less expensive way to find out what the composer was about. He belonged to the Cecilian movement, exemplified by the sacred works of Mendelssohn, which sought to establish a new and distinctive idiom for church composition, which is heard to best effect in a quartet of Communion pieces at the end of the first album, which fully exploit the size and array of tone-colors available to him on the newly built instruments of the time. In this spirit Petrali also composed 71 studies ‘for the modern organ’, collected in two volumes, and Paolo Bottini presents almost half of them on CD two. 2 CDs. Paolo Bottini (Lingiardi organs in Trecate, Verolanuova and Palazzolo sull’Oglio).