The Planets - NEPTUNE, the Mystic - Gustav Holst (Organ Solo)

Roberto Bertero at the Serassi/Vegezzi-Bossi/Tamburini/Zanin organ of Fossano’s St. Mary and St. Juvenal Co-Cathedral (Italy)

In this video I am playing my arrangement for solo organ of Neptune, composed by Gustav Holst, excerpt from the suite “The Planets” Op. 32.

I have always looked at Space with wonder. Its being distant, silent, elusive - an echo of infinity that attracts, fascinates and moves...
Therefore, when I began to study music, I was inevitably struck by Gustav Holst's suite “The Planets”.
Although Mars and Jupiter are the most famous, it was Neptune that spoke to me most deeply: a piece made of sound veils, evanescent harmonies, suspended like a whisper in the void.
I therefore decided to interpret it on the organ, to glimpse the infinite in the reverberating acoustics of the great cathedrals.
Neptune is mysticism in music and the organ, more than any other instrument, knows how to be a medium of Mystery.

The sound has been captured with Zoom H5 audio recorder (96kHz / 24bit), while footage was filmed with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.
Photographs ©Roberto Bertero.

Special thanks to:
St. Mary and St. Juvenal Co-Cathedral, Fossano. The Rector Rev. Davide Pastore
the titular organist M° Riccardo Adamo
the choirmaster M° Luca Giachero
Francesco Zanin Organi, Codroipo, for the latest renovation and expansion work.
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Organ builders:
1791 Serassi organ (Bergamo).
1918 expansion by Vegezzi-Bossi (Centallo).
1988 second expansion by Tamburini (Crema).
2024 renovation and expansion by Francesco Zanin (Codroipo).

Number of pipes: 3.800.

Floating Chamade Trumpet on all keyboards/pedals
Tromba Chamade 8

I - POSITIVO

Principale 8
Flauto a camino 8
Dulciana 8
Ottava 4
Flauto ottaviante 4
Flauto 2 2/3
Ottavina 2
Terza 1 3/5
Settima 1 1/7
Mistura
Cromorno 8
Fagotto 8
Tremolo

II - GRAND’ORGANO

Principale 16
Principale I 8
Principale II 8
Principale III 8
Flauto 8
Gamba 8
Ottava 4
Flauto a cuspide 4
Duodecima 2 2/3
Decimaquinta 2
Decimanona 1 1/3
Ripieno grave 3 file
Ripieno acuto 4 file
Tromba 8
Clarone 4
Voce umana 8 I

III - RECITATIVO

Principale 8
Bordone 8
Viola gamba 8
Ottava 4
Flauto tappato 4
Nazardo 2 2/3
Flautino 2
Flauto in XVII 1 3/5
Plein-jeu
Fagotto 16
Tromba armonica 8
Fagotto 8
Oboe 8
Fagotto 4
Voce Corale 8
Voce Celeste 8
Coro viole 4 file

PEDALE

Acustico 32
Contrabbasso 16
Principale 16
Subbasso 16
Basso 8
Bordone 8
Violoncello 8
Ottava 4
Ripieno 5 file
Bombarda 32
Bombarda 16
Fagotto 16
Trombone 8
Clarone 4

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