Tabula Summa: Contemporary Organ Works – Ivan Ronda

The Tabula summa is none other than the wind chest, the structural part of the organ that allows air to be brought to the pipes and therefore allows their sound. Not a negligible element then, just as this record that features five composers as protagonists, Carlotta Ferrari, Grimoaldo Macchia, Marco Lo Muscio, Roberto Bacchini, Stefano Bertuletti, each with their own language grappling with one of the oldest instruments, is not negligible. still today it has no equal in the musical world for breadth and timbre variety. Often relegated to an ecclesiastical vision of music, each author gives a secular vision of it, in some respects, and focuses on its instrumental peculiarities, treating it in all its power and sound richness. Not least the task of the interpreter Ivan Ronda who succeeds in the complex work of giving structure and body to pages not always of immediate listening but of constant and undeniable charm, guiding the viewer on an unprecedented journey into the contemporary organ that restores them to his own turn the status of a musical instrument in the round no longer linked only to celebratory functions or aspects and reconnecting to its most glorious past.