Pizzetti · Ghedini: Opere corali sacre Coro Euridice di Bologna, Pier Paolo Scattolin & Maurizio Guernieri

• Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880 - 1968): Requiem:
• 1 Pizzetti: Requiem 06:05
• Dies iræ:
• 2 Pizzetti: Dies iræ 11:28
• Sanctus:
• 3 Pizzetti: Sanctus 03:39
• Agnus Die:
• 4 Pizzetti: Agnus Dei 01:50
• Libera me:
• 5 Pizzetti: Libera me 04:52
• Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892 - 1965): Ave verum corpus:
• 6 Ghedini: Ave verum corpus 01:49
• Maria lavava:
• 7 Ghedini: Maria lavava 01:27
• Dove vai, Madonna mia:
• 8 Ghedini: Dove vai, Madonna mia 03:06
• Fiorito è Cristo nella carne pura:
• 9 Ghedini: Fiorito è Cristo nella carne pura 03:35
• Peccantem me quotidie:
• 10 Ghedini: Peccantem me quotidie 03:06
• Timor et tremor:
• 11 Ghedini: Timor et tremor 04:01
• Recessit pastor noster:
• 12 Ghedini: Recessit pastor noster 02:26
• O vos omnes:
• 13 Ghedini: O vos omnes 03:10
• Ecce quomodo moritur iustus:
• 14 Ghedini: Ecce quomodo moritur iustus 04:18
• Total Runtime 54:52

Info for Pizzetti · Ghedini: Opere corali sacre

With the publication of this album, the Euridice Choir, Bologna achieves a major objective with regard to the divulgation of some choral works by two authors, Ildebrando Pizzetti (Parma 1880–Rome 1968) and Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Cuneo 1892–Genoa Nervi 1965), who are at the top of the history of 20th-century Italian choral music; unfortunately most of these masterpieces seldom find place in concert programmes and are, by consequence, little known. These compositions are set on very different stylistic sides, but their musical quality outlines a clear profile of the expressive depth and aesthetic consistency of Italian choral music from the early 1900. The imposing polyphonic structure of Pizzetti's Requiem and the "neo-Madrigalism" (as defined by Massimo Mila) adopted by Giorgio Federico Ghedini are based respectively on the suggestions of Gregorian chant and on the stylistic modules of the Renaissance compositional heritage, whose recovery constitutes the founding cornerpiece of this music.

Coro Euridice
Maurizio Guernieri, conductor
Pier Paolo Scattolin, conductor

Coro Euridice
The Società Corale Euridice, founded in 1880, is the oldest secular choir in Bologna (Italy) and has been led by Pier Paolo Scattolin since 1976 and by Maurizio Guernieri since 2012. The concert activities extend far beyond the borders of Italy; since 1998 the choir society has organized the international choir festival City of Bologna every two years.

In 2009 the Euridice music school was opened, which offers singing training for young voices under the name Euridicinni as well as individual and group lessons for singing and instruments. Other activities of the music school include further training for choir conductors and, since 2015, summer courses for children and young people. An instrumental ensemble for historical performance practice and a non-professional orchestra with adults and children/young people round off the offering.

Numerous CD recordings testify to an extremely productive choir life.

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