Paolo Bottini - Giacomo Puccini: Complete Organ Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:40:37 | 232 / 445 Mb
Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:40:37 | 232 / 445 Mb
Genre: Classical
This recording gathers, for the first time[1], the complete original compositions for the organ by Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, December 22, 1858 – Brussels, November 29, 1924), collected and published in 2017 under the guidance of Virgilio Bernardoni in volume II/2.1 of the National Edition of Giacomo Puccini’s Works (Carus-Verlag 56.003).
It is thanks to the musicological efforts of the Giacomo Puccini Study Center in Lucca that, between 2015 and 2017, many of these compositions for the organ resurfaced. They had been scattered across various collections. Altogether, there are 57 pieces composed between 1870 and 1880, during the period when the young music student served as an organist in Lucca and neighboring towns.