Mainalovska, Boyana & Istvan Batori
Musica Bonomiensis
A CD Memory of the Music of the Members of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna in the 17th-18th Centuries. The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, founded in 1666, became the most authoritative seat society of professional musicians on the Italian peninsula at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, comparable to the oldest Congregation of Musicians of Rome, now the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. The preserved organ dates from 1673 and was commissioned from the famous organ builder Carlo Traeri of Brescia, who lived in Bologna. This instrument was certainly used in the weekly essercizi or rehearsals, the true venue of academic activities, together with the feast for the spiritual patron St. Anthony of Padua. The CD contains compositions in first world recording by a rapresentative group of composers of the Accademia Filarmonica performed on period instruments an on the original Traeri Organ.