L’organo di San Sigismondo in Cremona

The MVcremona label, which has always been committed to enhancing the musical heritage of the city of Cremona, presents this CD dedicatedto the precious Maineri-Acerbi organ of the church of San Sigismondo, a wonderful church located just outside the city.The first documented news of the construction of this monumental organ dates back to 1567 but the organ only began service in 1572.After an eighteenth-century intervention which partially modified it's phonic structure, a restoration which took place in 1860 by the organbuilder Luigi Vincenzo Acerbis, he configured the current phonic structure, where all the original sixteenth-century pipes both in metal andwood are still present. This makes the instrument very versatile and suitable for performing a wide musical repertoire. The Cremonese organistPaolo Bottini, already a protagonist in the valorization of other historical organs of Cremona through numerous recordings for variousrecord labels, presents in this CD a series of pieces by composers who worked in the Cremona area, starting from himself and going to backin time to Claudio Monteverdi, born in Cremona in 1567, the year in which construction of the organ began.The church and monastery of San Sigismondo in Cremona are governed by an order of cloistered nuns and therefore the Maineri-Acerbiorgan is used only for liturgical purposes: this makes this CD even more precious because it allows you to listen to the voice of this historicorgan in a repertoire of exceptional stylistic variety.