25 Pieces for Advent and Christmas
This collection is the result of twenty yearsʾ worth of Advent and Christmas services, Masses, concerts, and recordings. Most of the twenty-five organ works were directly inspired by whatever organ I was playing at the time. The most distinguished of these was the renowned 1859 E. & G. G. Hook Organ at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, which I had the honor of playing between 1989 and 2001. Advent and Christmas offered the best opportunities to exploit this instrumentʾs full palette of tone colors. On 18 January 2005 the organ perished in a fire, a tragedy that I have never gotten over. For me, a December without organ pipes would be like a framed canvas without paint on it. It is my sincerest hope that the music in this collection add a few drops of color to your Yuletide celebrations. (Leonardo Ciampa, 2009)
Audio demos
| Avvento (Advent Prelude), Op. 51 |
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| Diptych (Part I only), Op. 50 |
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| Advent Emerald (Smeraldo d’Avvento) |
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| Jesu, Redemptor Omnium, Op. 63 |
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| BRAHMS-CIAMPA Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen |
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