Zardini: Organ Works, Messa in simplicitate & Minuetto per orchestra

Featuring

Pier Damiano Peretti
Mario Lanaro
Cristina Zanella
Coro da Camera del Conservatorio di Verona
Orchestra Giovanile Veronese
Terenzio Zardini

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Compositional Technique

Terenzio Zardini's Sonata I uses an octatonic scale of alternating major and minor seconds, a principle similar to Olivier Messiaen's modes of limited transposition, but with inverted intervals.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Terenzio Zardini believed that a trace of divine beauty could be found in all inspired music, aligning with the idea that "beauty will save the world."

Composer Biography

Terenzio Zardini's extensive output includes over two thousand compositions, with 20 masses, 8 cantatas, 85 madrigals, and 350 motets, some of which won international awards.

Compositional Technique

In his Introduzione e Allegro, Terenzio Zardini explored Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic system, using a twelve-note row that encompasses all invertible intervals within the octave.

Composer Biography

Terenzio Zardini studied Composition at the Conservatory 'B. Marcello' in Venice, graduating with honors under Gabriele Bianchi, and was awarded a stay at the Salzburg Festival in 1954.

Instruments

The organ used for this recording, built by Vincenzo Mascioni in 1943, incorporates facade pipes and some stops from two earlier organs by Bossi and Zordan.