Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

[djarvie]

Well Alan, I couldn't exactly remember what I had done to get the Sgambati, but I played around with the site and eventually managed to download the Perosi concerto for 7 Euros.
On the home page (http://www.amadeusonline.net/, bottom right, you will see four options.  Click on the second one down ((LA RIVISTA DIGITALE).  This takes you to a page where you will see a selection of editions you can buy.  The one you want is no. 327 (currently top left as it is the most recent).
Click on "ACQUISTA ORA" in blue below it.  This takes you to your basket, you then click CASSA and you can pay in a variety of ways (I used PayPal).  At some point the site logged me in (I must have registered last time).  I was then able to click on a download icon and download a Zip file containing the music.  You can download the file 100 times.

As far as I can remember this is what happened - I didn't want to go beyond CASSA again in case I bought a second copy.

I hope this works for you.

David

[adriano]

If anybody wants the other interpretation (Rudner), or the one in question (Attardi), I can send MP3 or .wav files to anybody via wetranfer, asking me for this via messenger. I have cancelled my old upload of the Rudner version because from time to time I must make space for new uploads in my Mediafire space.

[Alan Howe]

Again, I simply can't complete the registration process, so I give up...

[jerfilm]

For those of us who dig Perosi, I see that Bongiovonni has released a recording of his Suite #2 - Venezia and some other shorter goodies......  long work, just short of 40 minutes!

J

[UnsungMasterpieces]

I'm planning on listening to a few oratorios by Lorenzo Perosi, and from this thread I get the impression that the reception of Perosi's music is, well... mixed.
Still, I'm intrigued by this composer, mostly because of the fact that he mainly composed oratorios and masses instead of operas. (Yes, I'm aware that's kind of an easy generalization )
I'm trying to find out which composers in a way may have influenced Perosi in his music, but so far it's been a bit difficult to pinpoint any.
What are your ideas on this subject?

[adriano]

Perosi was the exponent of the so-called "movimento Ceciliano", resuscitating Gregorian Chant and ancient sacral polyphony. See my earlier postings. He influenced a lot of sacred music composers, but I fear they are all obscure Italian ones, except:

Marco Enrico Bossi. He wrote a beautiful and monumental Organ Concerto. He dedicated it to Sgambati.
https://imslp.org/wiki/Organ_Concerto,_Op.100_(Bossi,_Marco_Enrico)
(no full score)

There once was a Bongiovanni CD:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7eSUet2iXefyFNbKqCibB1
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/works/42019--bossi-m-e-organ-concerto-in-a-minor-op-100/browse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-APpDkmS6ZA

This is more interesting:
https://www.amazon.de/Works-Organ-Orchestra-Meldau-Enrico/dp/B01MTM7VVD/ref=sr_1_9?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=marco+enrico+bossi&qid=1559198222&s=music&sr=1-9
This has his Concerto, his Concertstück and the Fantasia Sinfonica. Very recommendable.

The Italian label Tactus produced a CD edition (as far as I remember 13 volumes!!) of Bossi's complete organ works. MDG also started a series...

Bossi also composed a Requiem for mixed chorus and organ:
https://www.amazon.de/Missa-Pro-Defunctis-Op-83-Orgelwerke/dp/B000EDWL5U/ref=sr_1_41?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=marco+enrico+bossi&qid=1559198450&s=music&sr=1-41

There are also some vocal items:
https://www.amazon.de/Verschiedene-Werke-Sopran-Violine-Orgel/dp/B0001EJ78Q/ref=sr_1_43?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=marco+enrico+bossi&qid=1559198450&s=music&sr=1-43

Bossi's Piano Trios were issued by Hungaroton:
https://www.amazon.de/Klavietrios-Op-107-Hungarian-Piano-Trio/dp/B0009S4VS0/ref=sr_1_42?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=marco+enrico+bossi&qid=1559198450&s=music&sr=1-42

Very interesting are his six "Intermezzi Goldoniani" for string orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buL3sNvAlS0
There is a (deleted) CD by the label Agora - now an Amazon Marketplace item.
Gustav Mahler conducted these Intermezzi at Carnegie Hall in February 1910.

Here is an audio selection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buL3sNvAlS0

Bossi (a pupil of Ponchielli) also composed some operas! Mortari, Ghedini and Malipiero figured among his pupils.

Bossi died in 1925, on board of the steamer from New York to Le Havre which brought him back from his USA tour. He was an acclaimed organ virtuoso.
(Another composer who died on board of a ship was Enrique Granados. That happened in 1916; whilst crossing the Channel, the ship was torpedoed by a German U-Boot. The composer was on his way to the USA, to give a private piano recital at the White House. He was accompanied by his wife ...)

(Perhaps a suggestion to open a separate thread on Bossi?)

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In the Italian city of Tortona (Perosi's birthplace), there is an "Accademia Musicale Lorenzo Perosi", organising a regular Perosi Festival (not sure if it is still running).
They had a website, but it does not work anymore.

The 2010 program was:
https://festivalperosiano.wordpress.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/festivalperosiano/5599956752

In 1997 they performed Perosi's complete chamber music there.

[Jor]

Marco Enrico Bossi also had a son, Renzo Rinaldo, who became a composer. He is mostly remembered for the composition of an Opera on the libretto of Giovanni Pascoli (Nell'anno mille).

[alberto]

Renzo Bossi is (or was) present on disc.
The Agorà Cd, above quoted by Hadrianus about the "Intermezzi Goldoniani" by his father Marco Enrico, contains also a set of "Ricreazioni" of music of M.E. Bossi and a set of "Ricreazioni" of ancient italian music.IMHO i find it a playful record.
However a Bongiovanni Cd containing the Violin Concerto (1906), a "Dittico" for orch., "Otto canzoni" for strings, "Bianco e Nero"for orch.  presents IMHO the shortcomings in performances not unusually associated to the label.

[adriano]

Thanks Jor and alberto for these completing infos :-)
Bongiovanni, unfortunately, has a lot of such unsatisfactory CDs - and many (also good ones) have been cancelled...

[adriano]

On Perosi's influence - just this observation:
Perosi was actually a contemporary of Respighi; Bossi was just a generation older.
Respighi wrote his lovely "Suite per archi ed organo" (in G) in 1905; Bossi's Organo Concerto op. 100 (with an accompaniment of strings, 4 horns and timpani) was first performed in 1895 (and published in 1900).
From 1902 until 1911, Bossi was director of the Liceo Musicale of Bologna (renamed in 1945 "Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini") where Respighi had studied from 1891 till 1899. Martucci, Respighi's composition teacher, had been Bossi's predecessor. The organ room at he Bologna Conservatory is named after Bossi ("sala Bossi").
Respighi's Suite has stylistical similarities with Bossi's Concerto - and, indirectly, because of its "sacred music" atmosphere, it may also be a "heritage" of Perosi. Two pieces of this Suite have sacral titles "Aria" and "Cantico". The Aria (originally a 5 year's earlier piece for violin and organ) is intended as an "Aria da chiesa" (Church aria) - and the "Cantico" sounds indeed like a meditative religious celebration.