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ZIPOLI COMPLETE KEYBOARD MUSIC
Carlo Guandalino organ
Laura Farabollini harpsichord
Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was the sixth child born to Sabatino Zipoli and Eugenia Varocchi in Prato. The Prato Cathedral organist-choirmasters in his youth were both Florentines: Ottavio Termini (born in 1703) and Giovanni Francesco Beccatelli. On 12 September 1707 he petitioned Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for six scudi monthly to study in Florence, where the cathedral organist from 1703 was Giovanni Maria Casini. On 2 February and 9 March 1708 he cooperated with Casini, Caldara, Gasparini and 20 others in composing an oratorio produced in Florence under the supervision of Orlandini by the Compagnia di S Marco, and later that year at the Oratorians' church in a version with arias by Zipoli replacing those of Omodei Sequi. Supported by a further ducal charity grant, he moved to Naples in 1709 for lessons with Alessandro Scarlatti but left in the same year after disagreements and went to study in Bologna under Lavinio Felice Vannucci; he next went from Bologna to Rome for lessons with the veteran Bernardo Pasquini. Staying in Rome he composed two oratorios of which only the librettos survive, S. Antonio di Padova (1712) and S.Caterina vergine, e martire (1714). In 1715 he was appointed organist of the Jesuit church in Rome and in the following year he published the keyboard collection on which his fame rests, Sonate d'intavolatura. The Princess of Forano to whom he dedicated the work, Maria Teresa Strozzi, may have been related to the bishop, Leone Strozzi, who had confirmed him at Prato Cathedral on 2 May 1699. Zipoli joined the Society of Jesus on 1 July 1716, and soon after he went to Seville to await passage to the Paraguay province. With 53 other prospective Jesuit missionaries he sailed from Cadiz on 5 April 1717. After a violent storm he and the others disembarked in Buenos Aires in July, and after 15 days set out for Cordoba. By 1724 he had completed with distinction the required three years of philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Colegio Maximo and university in Cordoba. He was ready to receive priest's orders in 1725, but died (of tuberculosis) without them for lack of a bishop in Cordoba to ordain him. Zipoli was one of many excellent musicians recruited by the Jesuits between 1650 2
and 1750 to work in the so-called Paraguay reductions and his music was well known in South America. He was the most renowned Italian composer to go to the New World in colonial times and the most famous to have chosen the Jesuit order. Among the less known works by Zipoli, it is worth to mention the D minor Suite, a transcription for pipe organ of a "concerto grosso" by A. Corelli. This manuscript has been recently found inside a library in Conception, where the composer used to be a missionary. Š Carlo Guandalino Translated by Maurizia Guandalino.
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Carlo Guandalino graduated in "Organ and organ composition" with Prof. L. Romiti at the Conservatory of Music "A. Vivaldi "of Alessandria. Here he finished the study with a Master in Organ Interpretation (with the max. of evalutation 110/110 points). Awarded in four national organ competitions (by category of membership), in 2011 he was awarded, for artistic merit, a scholarship "Paul Perduca" by the same cultural association. He performs both as soloist and in duet with trumpeter Prof. F. Patrucco. He has attended numerous master classes with internationally renowned teachers such as M. Nosetti, G. Gnann, C. Schnorr, R. Antonello, J. Raas, L. Scandali, L. Lohmann, L.F. Tagliavini, C. Mantoux and A. Liebig. For years, he studied organ music from the baroque with E. Viccardi, L. Scandali and G. Gnann. He is currently official organist in the S. Babila’s Church in Milan (Italy).
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Laura Farabollini graduated in 2000 summa cum laude in piano under the guidance of professor Graziella Sbarrato, in 2003 in harpsichord with professor Francesca Lanfranco, in 2007 in composition with M° Paolo Ferrara at Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” where, in the same year, she graduated, both times with the highest honours, in music didactics. From 2003 to 2009 she studied historical keyboards with Emilia Fadini. She has specialized in harpsichord with Bob Van Asperen, Gustav Leonhardt and Pierre Hantai. She has been awarded first prizes at several national and international contests, and carries out an intense concert career as well as a solo pianist or in many chamber groups giving concerts for important musical associations in Italy and abroad. In 2003 she graduated with prof. Giorgio Pestelli in modern literature at the Università degli Studi of Torino, discussing the history of music thesis “Bruno Bettinelli’s music for capell choir” (published by Rugginenti Editions Milano). Laura Farabollini is a permanent teacher in Italian at junior school. She has also worked at Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” in Alessandria as a piano assistant, accompanist master and teacher for musical propaedeutics courses. She plays a two manuals and four registers French harpsichord, which is a copy of an instrument by Taskin of the late 1700's, made by Giuseppe Corazza in 2003
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Harpsichord French harpsichord, copy of an instrument by Taskin of late 1700, two manuals and four registers (2 x 8’, 4’, buff), FFG3, transposable A415/A440, manufactured by Giuseppe Corazza from Grondona, Piedmont, Italy.
Organ The pipe organ of Castelnuovo Scrivia appears to be the oldest in the territory of Alessandria, going back to 1612, built by the brothers Angelo and Giuseppe Vitani and subsequently revised by Luigi Amati in 1796. This is testified by the presence of sounds by 12 feet and for the double ripieno; a typichal characteristic in the Italian Renaissance pipe organ.
Stop list:
RIPIENO COLUMN
Principale II Bassi (Wood) Principale Bassi (12') Principale Soprani Ottava XV-I XV-II XIX-I XIX-II XXII-I XXII-II XXVI XXIX XXXIII E XXXVI Sesquialtera Contrabbassi E Rinforzi 6
CONCERT COLUMN Principale II Soprani Voce Umana Ottavino Soprani Oboe Cornetto III File Viola Bassi Fagotto Bassi Tromba Soprani Clarone Bassi Flagioletto Bassi Flauto In VIII Fluta Soprani Tromboni Ai Pedali (12') Timpani Ai Pedali Campanelli
We thank in particular Don Constantino Marostegan, pastor of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Castelnuovo Scrivia for the availability offered in the course of recording and, of course, the Bottega Organaria Dell'Ortro and Lanzini, architect of the restoration of the instrument, and Giuseppe Corazza, harpsichord builder, for their cooperation demonstrated during the sessions of engraving.
Recording: 20-22 November 2014, Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Castelnuovo Scrivia (AL), Italy Sound engineering, editing and mastering: Federico Savio (fede.savio@libero.it) Cover image: Lucretia by Lorenzo Lotto p & © 2016 Brilliant Classics
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