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Eugenio Maria Fagiani, organ
In a disc consisting mostly of his own compositions, organ virtuoso Eugenio Maria Fagiani continues his series of CDs with flair and style. He presents an attractive blend of music drawn from the church music tradition as well as from 20th-century pop music, and has at his disposal the fine late-Romantic Locatelli organ in Mapello.
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Eugenio Maria Fagiani, organ
EUGENIO MARIA FAGIANI (b.1972)
Premier Livre de Noels op. 42a*
Savez-vous mon cher voisin?
Bon Joseph écoutez moi
In dulci jubilo
Il est Né
Il n’est rien de plus tender
Il fait bon Aimer
Où s’en vont ces gais bergers
A minuit fut fait un réveil
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI (1861–1925)
Entrée Pontifi cale op. 104/1
EUGENIO MARIA FAGIANI
Sette Pezzi Brevi op. 94b*
Regina Caeli
Pater Noster
Salve Regina
Ubi caritas
Ave Maris Stella
Pange Lingua
Alleluja
FILIPPO CAPOCCI (1840–1911)
Preludio in Mi bemolle
EUGENIO MARIA FAGIANI
Preludio e Fuga op. 29/2*
Preludio
Fuga
GIOVANNI MORANDI (1777–1856)
Elevazione
EUGENIO MARIA FAGIANI
from / aus / da Stele op. 32*
III. In paradisum
IV. Chorus angelorum
Due Improvvisazioni sopra Salve Regina
Fantasia
Tanz-Toccata
* World Prèmiere Recording
English booklet enclosed (24 pages), German booklet enclosed, Con note in italiano
Total recording time: 77.56 | Format: 1 Audio-CD | RD: 01 June 2010
Recording: 5/2008 – S. Michele Arcangelo Mapello, Bergamo | Mastering: 2010
(p) & (c) SPEKTRAL 2010 | Series SPEKTRAL CLASSICS
Order No.: SRL4-09050 | GTIN (EAN): 4260130380755
Eugenio Maria Fagiani studied with Enzo Corti in Milan and got an Organ and a Composition Diploma at the Luca Marenzio Conservatory in Brescia. He also graduated in Musicology at the SPFM in Cremona-Pavia University with a graduation thesis on “Marcel Duprè and the art of improvisation”. He took part in several master classes with Nigel Allcoat, Ewald Kooiman, Piet Kee, Daniel Roth, Gillian Weir and Naji Hakim. Later on he specialized in the art of improvisation with Nigel Allcoat, Jürgen Essl, Peter Planyavsky and Naji Hakim. He also went thoroughly into the study of Music Analysis with Marcel Bitsch. He regularly performs in Europe, the United States and Canada on some of the most important instruments, including St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Kirche in Berlin, Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., St. Patrick’s Cathedral and St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto, Brucknerorgel of St. Florian Stiftsbasilika, Austria, the Shrine of La Verna, S. Vitale’s Basilica in Ravenna. He is the lecturer of the annual improvisation courses supported by the International Organ Festival “Città di Bergamo”. He is Direct or of Music and Organist of the historic Locatelli organ, built in 1899, in S. Michele Arcangelo Church in Mapello, Bergamo. As a composer his works include pieces of chamber music for various instrumentations, orchestra and organ. Published by Carrara, Turris and Delatour France, they are in the repertoire of artists like Stephen Tharp, Carol Williams, Robert Kovacs and Massimo Nosetti. He is also the author of a renown series of organ transcriptions.
www.eugeniomariafagiani.com
