Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030505391
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: RESPIGHI
Description
Feste Romane (Roman Festivals) Circenses (Circuses) Giubileo (Jubilee) L'Ottobrata (October Harvest Festival) La Befana (Epiphany) Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) La fontana di Valle Giulia all'alba (The Fountain of Valle Giulia at Dawn) La fontana dei Tritone al mattino (The Triton Fountain at Morn) La fontana di Trevi al meriggio (The Trevi Fountain at Mid-day) La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto (The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset) Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) I pini di Villa Borghese (The Pines of the Villa Borghese) Pini presso una catacomba (Pines near a Catacomb) I pini dei Gianiculo (The Pines of the Janiculum) I pini della Via Appia (The Pines of the Appian Way) Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna in 1879 and studied the violin and viola at the Liceo Musicale there from 1891 with Federico Sarti. At the same time he took lessons in composition, at first from the musicologist Luigi Torchi, who had returned to Bologna from the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro in the same year, and later from the composer Giuseppe Martucci, who was director of the Liceo until 1902. In 1899 he completed his studies and the following year went to St. Petersburg as principal viola-player at the Imperial opera. In Russia, where he spent the seasons of 1901-1902 and 1903-1904, he took lessons in composition and orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov. During the first decade of the century Respighi won a reputation as a performer, while pursuing his growing interest in earlier music and in composition. In Berlin in 1908 and 1909 he attended lectures by Max Bruch, but to relatively little effect. The influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, however, remained with him, guiding his bold use of orchestral colour in the music he wrote. These years brought a series of compositions. In 1902 a piano concerto of his was performed in Bologna and his Notturno of 1905 was played in New York under Rodolfo Ferrari. In the same year his opera Ré Enzo was staged in Bologna, to be followed five years later by Semirama, these operas proving successful enough to bring about his appointment in 1913 as a teacher of composition at the Liceo Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1919 Respighi married a singer, Eisa Olivieri-Sangiacomo and in 1924 he became director of the Santa Cecilia, resigning two years later to devote himself to composition, although he continued to teach and to perform in concerts and recitals as a conductor and as accompanist to his wife. He died in 1936 at the house he had named after one of his most famous works, I Pini. Respighi's international reputation, which still exceeds that of any other Italian composer of his generation, depends very largely on the symphonic poems that otter evocative and pictorial representations of Rome. Fontane di Roma, four vivid pictures of the fountains of the city, was completed in 1916. Pini di Roma, an evocation of Roman scenes associated with the pines of the city and its surrounding countryside, followed in 1924, and this was succeeded in 1929
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
The Brahms Trio
Roman Fediurko
London Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Sanz-Espert
