This double CD, continuing the last section of the Marco Enrico Bossi complete organ works series dedicated to the transcriptions, the attention is focused on an aspect very important both to the composer and to the Cecilian movement in general: the recovery of the ancient musical heritage. These ‘transcriptions of the old masters’ revisited by Bossi and adapted to instruments of his time, mark the return to the study of the Italian school of music, making it an integral part and foundation of the modern school. As in the famous phrase by Giuseppe Verdi: ‘back to the old, it will be progress’, a concept followed to the letter by the Generation of the Eighties. For performing these evocative songs, Andrea Macinanti is playing an organ inaugurated by Marco Enrico Bossi himself in 1893 (Callido-Pugina-Zanin, Duomo di Thiene). Giovanni Battista Fabris and Elena Perera join him in the scores including strings.