Visioni del Novecento Livia Mazzanti

• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951):
• 1 Schoenberg: Variations on a recitative op.40 21:45
• Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992):
• 2 Messiaen: L'Ascension-Quatre Méditations Symphoniques - Majesté du Chirst demandant sa gloire à son Père 06:19
• 3 Messiaen: L'Ascension-Quatre Méditations Symphoniques - Alléluias sereins d'une ame qui désire le ciel 06:38
• 4 Messiaen: L'Ascension-Quatre Méditations Symphoniques - Transports de joie d'une ame devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne 04:42
• 5 Messiaen: L'Ascension-Quatre Méditations Symphoniques - Prière du Christ montant vers son Père 07:58
• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963):
• 6 Hindemith: Sonata I, Moderatamente veloce - Vivace 06:14
• 7 Hindemith: Sonata I, Molto lento - Fantasia, liberamente - Calmo e animato 10:11
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988):
• 8 Scelsi: In nomine Lucis 08:36
• Total Runtime 01:12:23

Info for Visioni del Novecento

From the very beginning of her career in Rome in the eighties, Livia Mazzanti has revealed a wide range of interpretation, playing rarely executed organ compositions and choosing to offer possible affinities between different periods and styles in her concert programs.

Livia Mazzanti plays on the Organ Kleuker (1978) designed by Jean Guillou for the Church of Notre Dame des Neiges at l'Alpe d'Huez (France).

Livia Mazzanti was born in Rome, where she studied piano (obtaining a diploma in 1980), organ and composition for organ with highest honours (1985).

She moved to Paris where in 1988 she won a French Government Grant.

Her career as an organist began at the Basilica Ss Cosma and Damiano, and then at the Church of S. Maria Maddalena in Rome.

For this album, dedicated to XXth century organ music, Livia Mazzanti chose to play on an instrument of contemporary significance: the Kleuker organ designed by Jean Guillou for the Church of Notre Dame des Neiges at l'Alpe d'Huez (France).

In this album Livia Mazzabti plays the Variations on a recitative op. 40 / Arnold Schoenberg (1941), L'Ascension - Quatre Méditations Symphoniques / Olivier Messiaen (1933), Sonata I Paul Hindemith (1937) and In nomine Lucis / Giacinto Scelsi (1974)

The album was recorded by Giulio Cesare Ricci at the Church of Notre Dame des Neiges, Alpe d'Huez in France in November 1991.

Livia Mazzanti, organ

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Livia Mazzanti
From the very beginning of her career in Rome in the eighties, Livia Mazzanti has revealed a wide range of interpretation, playing rarely executed organ compositions and choosing to offer possible affinities between different periods and styles in her concert programs.

With a degree in piano, organ and organ composition, her meeting with composers like Giacinto Scelsi and, later, with Jean Guillou proved decisive; she went on to continue her studies with the latter in France.

In 1985, she received the Special Jury Prize at the International Organ Competition in Rome, and when she was awarded a grant from the French government in 1988, she settled in Paris where, the following year, she was conferred with the Unanimité du Jury, the Diplôme de Concert of the Schola Cantorum.

Since then she has pursued her career both in Italy and France, while her concerts have led her to appear in most of the European countries, the United States and the Middle East.

She is responsible for the ideation and artistic direction of MUSICOMETA, the festival for famous international soloists that has been held in Rome since 1995. She has also collaborated musically with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rome. She is the only foreign musician in France who is listed in the organ collections of RCA Victor/BMG France, and her recordings have been critically acclaimed by such magazines as Diapason, Répertoire, and Organist's Review. Livia Mazzanti has also recorded for Fonè and participated in the recording of the complete organ works of J. Guillou for Philips/Universal. She has recently rediscovered the complete works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, recording them for the first time in the world on the organ of the Tonhalle of Zurich for the AEOLUS label.

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