François Couperin - BENEDICTUS - Chromhorne en taille (Messe à l'usage des Paroisses)

Roberto Bertero at the Great Organ Bonato/Klais of Villasanta’s Sant'Anastasia church (Italy).
In this video I am playing François Couperin’s Benedictus.
François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.
During this video I will show photos depicting the church of Saint-Gervais in Paris, where François in 1688 became organist (a position occupied by members of the Couperin family for 173 years!).
Only one collection of organ music by François Couperin survives, the Pièces d'orgue consistantes en deux Messes ("Pieces for Organ Consisting of Two Masses"), which were published in November 1690.
At the age of 21, François probably had neither the funds nor the reputation to obtain widespread publication and the Masses were released as manuscripts, with a printed title page and approbation by his teacher, Michel Richard Delalande, who wrote that the music was "very beautiful and worthy of being given to the public." The two masses were intended for different audiences: the first for parishes or secular churches ("paroisses pour les fêtes solemnelles”), from which this meditative Benedictus is taken, the second for convents or abbey churches ("couvents de religieux et religieuses").
The peculiarity of this video is that I did not record it at the Santuario della Consolata Organ, but at the Bonato-Klais Organ, built in 2013 in the parish of Sant'Anastasia in Villasanta (MB), Italy. Perhaps the instrument most loved by Jean Guillou in the last years of his existence.
Special thanks to:
Parish of S. Anastasia, Villasanta (MB). Daniele Tobio, Giampiero del Nero and Mario Pessina.
Paolo Sanvito, Stefano Ghezzi and Giuseppe Distaso,
for maintenance and assistance to the organ.
Grande Organo di Villasanta www.grandeorganovillasanta.it
The sound has be captured with Zoom H5 audio recorder (96kHz / 24bit), while footage was filmed with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.
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Great Organ Bonato/Klais (year 2013)
Great Organ Bonato/Klais (year 2013)
5.006 pipes
Electric transmission
4 manuals 61 notes
Pedalboard with 32 parallel keys
Project by M° Paolo Oreni
Stoplist
I - POSITIVO APERTO
Quintaton 16'
Principale 8'
Flauto a camino 8'
Corno di camoscio 4'
Flauto a fuso 4'
Doublette 2'
Larigot armonico 1.1/3'
Settima 1.1/7'
Nona 8/9'
Sesquialtera II
Aliquot IV
Cymbale III
Ranquette 16'
Cornopean 8'
Cromorno 8'
Tremolo
I - CORALE ESPRESSIVO
(Balbiani, assegnabile anche a III)
Principale 8'
Dulciana 8'
Voce celeste 8'
Pastorale 16'
Ottava 4'
Decimaquinta 2'
Ripieno IV
II - GRAND'ORGANO
Principale 16'
Principale 8'
Flauto di concerto 8'
Bordone 8'
Gamba 8'
Quinta 5.1/3'
Ottava 4'
Flauto traverso 4'
Terza 3.1/5'
Decimaseconda 2.2/3'
Decimaquinta 2'
Cornetto II-V
Grand fourniture IV
Plein jeux V
Tromba 16'
Tromba 8'
Tromba 4'
Tremolo
III - RECITATIVO ESPR.
Bordone 16'
Principale 8'
Corno di notte 8'
Viola 8'
Eolina 8'
Voce angelica III
Flauto ottaviante 4'
Fugara 4'
Ottavino 2'
Fagotto 16'
Tromba armonica 8'
Oboe 8'
Voix humaine 8'
Clarone armonico 4'
Tremolo
IV - SOLO
Violone 16'
Diapason 8'
Flauto armonico 8'
Violoncello 8'
Flauto armonico 4'
Nazardo armonico 2.2/3'
Ottavino armonico 2'
Terza armonica 1.3/5'
Piccolo armonico 1'
Progressione V
Clarinetto 8'
Tremolo
ASSEGNABILI
Tuba magna 16'
Tuba episcopale 8'
Chamade 16'
Chamade 8'
Chamade 4'
PEDALE
Subbasso 32'
Flauto aperto 16'
Principale 16'
Subbasso 16'
Bordone 16'
Violone 16'
Gran quinta 10.2/3'
Basso 8'
Flauto 8'
Bordone 8'
Flauto largo 4'
Flauto 2'
Tiorba III
Controbombarda 32'
Bombarda 16'
Tromba 16'
Fagotto 16'
Tromba 8'
Baryton 8'
Clarone 4'
Schalmey 4'
PEDALE CORALE (Balbiani)
Bordone 16'
Corno 4'

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