The Studio / Crema, Italy
A room to listen.
Sala Musicale Giardino brings the recording space, the resident Steinway Model D and the pipe organ together in Crema, Northern Italy.
The room at a glance
The essentials.
In one place.
- The setting
- Sala Musicale Giardino, Crema, Northern Italy.
- The instruments
- Resident Steinway Model D concert grand and pipe organ.
- The recording setup
- A separate technical room, 16 permanent audio lines and installed talkback.
- Your ensemble
- Room layout and microphone placement are planned around the musicians and repertoire.
- Technical reference
- Room layout & technical guide
The instruments.
The performance.
The resident Steinway Model D and pipe organ are part of the room’s musical identity. Explore the piano and hear recordings made on the instrument.
Explore the Steinway
A musical heritage
An organ with
a history of its own.
Designed by Pietro Pasquini and assembled between 2005 and 2010, the organ incorporates historic pipework from a late nineteenth-century instrument by Vittore Ermolli of Varese.
The instrument.
Two 58-note manuals, a 27-note pedalboard, mechanical action and an unequal temperament. The upper manual controls the Grand’Organo; the lower manual controls the Positivo.
The work behind it.
Pasquini and Franco Pagliari assembled the instrument. Ilic Colzani voiced and tuned it and restored the historic pipes. Ettore Bastici and Ermes Cattaneo restored the windchests, bellows, pedalboard and wooden pipes. New components were contributed by Giuseppe Tisi, Luca Scotti and other specialist craftspeople.
History, credits & stop specification Technical description by Colzani OrganiThe room.
The connections.
Explore the equipment inventory and technical guide for routing, monitoring and planning a session with your own engineer.
Plan a visit.
Hear the room.
Visits are welcome by arrangement. Tell us if you would like to try the piano or discuss a particular ensemble setup, and we will coordinate your visit.
Arrange a visit