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Respighi – Church Windows

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Catalogue numberBIS-2250 SACD
Release date2017-11-08
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz
Total time66:26

In their acclaimed series of Ottorino Respighi’s orchestral music, John Neschling and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège have transported listeners to destinations as diverse as Brazil (Impressione brasiliane) and King Solomon’s Jerusalem (Belkis, Regina di Saba) as well as giving a thrilling account of the composer’s monumental Sinfonia drammatica – a score of epic proportions for a correspondingly large-scale orchestra. That performance earned a Critic’s Choice in American Record Guide and an ‘Empfehlung’ on German website Klassik-Heute.de, and throughout the series Neschling and his team have received high praise for incisive interpretations and luxurious playing.

The present disc brings together three of Respighi’s more popular works, besides the perennial Roman trilogy. Scored for small orchestra, his Botticellian Triptych has all the freshness of the famous paintings of the Renaissance master: Spring, Adoration of the Magi and Birth of Venus. Subtitled ‘poemetto lirico’ Il tramonto was originally composed for voice and string quartet, but is often performed with a larger complement of strings, as here. Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci breathes impassioned life into Shelley’s Romantic poem The Sunset (translated into Italian) in which love is brutally cut short by death. The disc closes with the four Church Windows, three of which originated as piano preludes based on Gregorian themes. In 1925 Respighi composed a fourth companion piece, and recast the set as a suite for orchestra. Only then did he give titles to the movements, so that his lavishly orchestrated windows are in fact imaginary scenes, rather than any existing church windows.
 
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  Composer: Respighi, Ottorino
  Trittico botticelliano per piccola orchestra 19:52
01 I. La Primavera 06:01 $ 1.46 USD
02 II. L’adorazione dei Magi 08:57 $ 2.17 USD
03 III. La nascita di Venere 04:54 $ 1.24 USD
 
04 Il tramonto (The Sunset) 16:24 $ 4.00 USD
 
  Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows) 28:37
05 I. La fuga in Egitto 06:37 $ 1.60 USD
06 II. San Michele Arcangelo 06:18 $ 1.53 USD
07 III. Il mattutino di Santa Chiara 05:18 $ 1.29 USD
08 IV. San Gregorio Magno 10:24 $ 2.63 USD
 
  Album total 66:26
ComposerRespighi, Ottorino
SopranoAntonacci, Anna Caterina
LyricistShelley, Percy Bysshe

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