Roberto Bertero performing various authors on 6 different organs!
Video born as a school project, with the aim of offering young students a few nuggets of knowledge about what an organ is, idea then slightly expanded and converted into a promo video for this KZread channel.
Indeed, the aim is the same: to condense into a few minutes a cross-section of organ building art and great musical literature (original and transcribed) and thus present, even to neophytes, the king of instruments! Not an easy task, especially in Italy, where the organ is often ignored if not even misunderstood.
This video can therefore be a valid presentation of the topic of this channel.
Channel created mostly to let know the historical organ I am titular, located in the Santuario della Consolata, Turin (Italy), and also to present other valuable instruments that I happen to play during my artistic activity.
Here you are the 6 organs chosen:
Camillo Guglielmo Bianchi (1864) - Santuario della Consolata, Turin (IT)
J.L. Van Den Heuvel (1989) - Église Saint-Eustache de Paris (FR)
Dominique Oberthür (1986) - Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Auxerre (FR)
Gustavo Zanin (1990) - Santuario di Santa Rita, Torino (IT)
Späth Orgelbau (1981) - Pfarrei St. Peter und Paul, Zürich (CH)
Bonato / Klais (2013) - Chiesa Sant’Anastasia di Villasanta (IT)
00:00 Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata in D Minor BWV 565
01:12 Sergei Prokofiew, The Montagues and Capulets (Roméo et Juliette)
(Transcribed by Roberto Bertero)
01:48 Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D Major
02:14 Pierre Cochereau, Gigue from “Suite de Danses Improvisées"
(Improvisation reconstructed by David Briggs)
03:05 Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" BWV 147
03:52 Antonio Vivaldi, Allegro Opus 3 no 3 in G Major “L’estro Armonico”
(Transcribed by Roberto Bertero)
04:21 Georg Friedrich Händel, “Lascia ch’io pianga” from Rinaldo HWV 7
(Transcribed by Roberto Bertero)
05:15 Pierre Attaignant, Tourdion
05:52 Jean Langlais, Incantation pour un jour Saint 'Lumen Christi'
06:31 Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings Op. 11
(Transcribed by Roberto Bertero)
07:28 George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
(Trasc. Roberto Bertero)
09:28 Franz Liszt, Poème symphonique Orpheus
(Transcribed by Jean Guillou)
10:06 Johann Sebastian Bach, “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” BWV 639
10:45 Charles-Marie Widor, Allegro from Organ Symphony No.6, Op.42
You can already LISTEN to most of these masterpieces, In FULL, on this channel.
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