Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol.1

Sumptuous and spectacular Romantic works by ‘Toscanini’s Organist’. Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon Artist: Tommaso Mazzoletti Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): More Information: Pietro Yon (1886-1943) played in what is widely regarded as one of the finest-ever performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, conducted at Carnegie Hall in 1935 by Arturo Toscanini. Yon was sharing the stage with the likes of Elizabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza; he had acquired a comparable celebrity within the organ world in his lifetime, having emigrated from Italy to the US at the age of 21, and become Organist of St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the foremost seat of Catholicism in the US. A New York Times profile portrayed him as an adopted New Yorker who moved in high-society circles and enjoyed ragtime and vaudeville, and he wel