Flowers of Degrowth Benjamin Righetti

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1 Praeludium in G-dur, BWV 541 02:59
• Georg Böhm (1661 - 1733):
• 2 Vater unser im Himmelreich, IGB 24 04:44
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809):
• 3 Klaviersonate in e moll, Hob. XVI/34: III. Rondo. Vivace molto, innocentemente (Arr. for Organ) 03:47
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 4 Cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4, 2017 (Arr. for Organ): I. Sinfonia-Pro organo pleno 04:57
• Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707):
• 5 Passacaglia in d-moll, BuxWV 161 06:29
• Jehan Alain (1911 - 1940):
• 6 Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin, JA 118 (AWV 99) 06:28
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 7 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 04:33
• César Franck (1822 - 1890):
• 8 Pièce Héroïque, M37 08:47
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 9 Trio super Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660 02:48
• François Couperin (1668 - 1733):
• 10 Messe pour les Paroisses: Offertoire sur les Grands Jeux 08:16
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 11 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 03:15
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695):
• 12 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) (Arr. for Organ) 03:41
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943):
• 13 Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5: Alla marcia (Arr. for Organ) 04:07
• Benjamin Righetti (b. 1982):
• 14 Cantilène Op. 26 (version pour orgue solo) 05:11
• Dietrich Buxtehude:
• 15 Praeludium in C-dur, BuxWV 137 05:45
• Louis Marchand (1669 - 1732):
• 16 Pièces choisies pour l'orgue : Plein jeu 03:09
• 17 Pièces choisies pour l'orgue: Tierce en taille 03:28
• 18 Pièces choisies pour l'orgue: Basse de trompette 03:01
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 19 Praeludium pro Organo pleno in Es-dur, BWV 552/1 09:47
• 20 Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 684 04:45
• 21 Fuga à 5 con pedale pro Organop pleno in Es-dur, BWV 552/2 06:30
• Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780):
• 22 Fantasia à gusto italiano in F-dur, Krebs-WV 422 04:19
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869):
• 23 La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Marche Hongroise (Arr. for Organ by Benjamin Righetti) 05:45
• Nicolas de Grigny (1672 - 1703):
• 24 Messe pour orgue: Récit de tierce en taille 05:45
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 25 Passacaglia in c-moll, BWV 582 13:27
• Total Runtime 02:15:43

Info for Flowers of Degrowth

Spring 2020: The fight against coronavirus brought all concerts to a halt for musicians. Among the various initiatives that rapidly flourished, here are Benjamin Righetti's "Flowers of degrowth", recorded on the Organ of Saint-François in Lausanne.

From March to May 2020, in this period of enforced degrowth that left him more time for his personal work, he recorded 25 works, more than 2 hours of music halfway between live and studio work. Forced to do his own recording, he chose to make one-shot music videos, as fixed shots. Working without video editing, with a camera filming continuously, two microphones and his Nagra, he sought both to simplify the technical work in order to produce these clips in a short time, and also to offer the listeners the purest possible experience, as close as possible to a concert, at a time when video was no longer an alternative to the latter, but a substitute.

Whereas CDs are usually recorded in the middle of the night in downtown churches and noise is avoided during editing, these videos were shot during the day. Here and there you can hear street traffic or the noise of a passer-by, and you can even hear the bells ringing, just like during concerts. In a quest not for some elusive perfection but rather for true sincere gestures that connect us and speak to the listeners as directly as possible right behind the microphones, may these recordings be a witness to this period of degrowth and may they remind us that artistic creation thrives on calm and free time.

Benjamin Righetti, organ

Benjamin Righetti
"Gifted, inventive thirty-year-old" (Le Temps), "one of the most brilliant organists of his generation" (Revue musicale de Suisse romande), "an immensely talented performer" (Diapason), Benjamin Righetti is a Swiss musician, titular organist at St. François and professor at the University of Music, Lausanne (HEMU). Concurrently, he concertizes regularly on an international basis (more than 600 concerts to date). He has made numerous recordings (CDs, Radio-TV, Web) and as a researcher, he is writer for La Tribune de l'Orgue and the website orgue.art. M. Righetti loves both the mountains and the lakes of his small country and tries to balance his varied activities with rigor and joy.

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