Considered among the most emblematic composers of the Italian Risorgimento, a glory that shares with Giuseppe Verdi, Padre Davide da Bergamo, or Felice Moretti, is a very fascinating figure, that still awaits a full revaluation under the recording aspect. During his youth, the future Franciscan friar lived in a background filled with the belcanto style by Johann Simon Mayr, the same background of Gaetano Donizetti. This atmosphere can explain the brilliant and extroverted style that characterize most of huge production by Padre Davide, in which it is possible to recognize themes often rich in pathos, as those of the romantic works of the first half of the XIX century. The pieces presented in the first complete volume of his symphonies reveal an author with endless fantasy and able to take advantage of the technical and expressive resources of the great symphonic organs of the XIX century, as we can see in the superb performance by Luca Scandali, on the keyboard of the great organ Luigi Lingiardi (1860) in Cocconato.

Additional info about this CD
Recorded in Cocconato, Italy, 2016
16 pages full colour booklet (Ita and Eng)
Musicology comment,
Artist biography
Full organ specs card included