Respighi

Tasmin Little, Piers Lane - Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)

Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonatas (2012)
Tasmin Little, violin; Piers Lane, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 258 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10749 | Time: 01:05:52

Tasmin Little has decided to showcase works by Ottorino Respighi and Richard Strauss in her latest recital album for Chandos. She is joined by the well-respected Australian pianist Piers Lane.

VA - Ottorino Respighi: Essential Works (2019)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 18, 2022
VA - Ottorino Respighi: Essential Works (2019)

VA - Ottorino Respighi: Essential Works (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 808 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 439 MB
2:53:11 | Classical | Label: Menuetto Classics

Mostly known for his richly descriptive symphonic poems Fontane di Roma (The Fountains of Rome) and Pini di Roma (The Pines of Rome), Respighi was a versatile composer who translated into music powerful visual experiences and feelings of deep attachment to cherished places. Respighi's symphonic works are praised primarily for their exquisite orchestration, but these compositions also possess a charm which transcends the merely picturesque. This charm is particularly evident in works inspired by Medieval and Renaissance music, such as Ancient Airs and Dances for orchestra.
Geoffrey Tozer, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes - Respighi: Belfagor Overture; Toccata; Tre Corali; Fantasia slava (1994)

Ottorino Respighi: Belfagor Overture; Toccata; Tre Corali; Fantasia slava (1994)
Geoffrey Tozer, piano; BBC Philharmonic; Sir Edward Downes, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 197 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9311 | Time: 00:59:49

Respighi’s colourful music could have been written with the clear, full-bodied Chandos sound in mind. Following on from where Geoffrey Simon began for the label in the Eighties, Edward Downes is now exploring the more symphonic side of Respighi’s output, showing there is more to him than the Roman trilogy (if not that much, qualitatively). The present disc includes two of his four concertante works for piano and orchestra, the extended Toccata (according to Tozer’s booklet note, the longest such work in existence) and the quirky Slavonic Rhapsody, with its humorous sideswipe at Dvorák. More characteristic of Respighi is the concert overture derived from his opera Belfagor, about the exploits of a Till Eulenspiegel/Don Juan figure, portrayed with suitably colourful sound-painting. All these, together with the Bachian Three Chorales, are played with marvellous verve and commitment – the BBC PO under Downes has a way with this out-of-the-way repertoire that few can equal. The sound quality on this disc is nothing short of stunning.
The Ambache - Ottorino Respighi: Piano Quintet in F minor; String Quartet in D minor; Six pieces for violin and piano (2001)

The Ambache - Ottorino Respighi: Piano Quintet; String Quartet; Six Pieces (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 197 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9962 | Time: 01:16:45

Conservative in his musical style as in his politics – rightly or wrongly the whiff of Fascism hangs over his name – Ottorino Respighi is remembered today almost exclusively for the blazing triptych of Roman tone poems. He also, however, produced a corpus of chamber, keyboard and vocal works, not to mention operas and orchestral pieces, many of which are crying out to be rediscovered. Slowly they are finding their way into concert programmes and on to record, and this disc from the Ambache should bring three of them a well-deserved wider currency. The superb Piano Quintet in F minor occasionally recalls Franck (who wrote one in the same key), but its piano-dominated lyrical effusion is wholly individual. The substantial ten-minute first movement is inadequately balanced by a two-minute Andantino and four-minute scherzo-like Vivacissimo, however, and it is possible that a finale has somehow become detached.
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Recital 2000: Prokofiev, Crumb, Webern, Respighi (2000)

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Recital 2000: Prokofiev, Crumb, Webern, Respighi (2000)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:55 | 233 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 469503

This is a live recording, made at a pair of concerts in May, and ‘live’ is undoubtedly the word for it. All the performances have an improvisatory quality, interpretative decisions seemingly made before your very ears. At the beginning of the Prokofiev it is as though Mutter and Orkis, realising that the audience in the Beethovensaal are already uncommonly silent and attentive, had decided after a quick glance at each other to begin the Sonata almost confidingly, with quiet tenderness and muted colour.
Friedemann Layer, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Ottorino Respighi: La Campana sommersa (2003)

Friedemann Layer, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Ottorino Respighi: La Campana sommersa (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 73:40+69:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accord | # 476 1884 | Recorded: 2003

La campana sommersa was one of Respighi’s most successful works. It is an interesting piece not the least because of its philosophical ambiguities. On the surface it appears to be a story of the conflict of orthodox Christian faith with older, more pagan beliefs as represented by the fairy folk: Ondine, the water sprite, the Faun (the spirit of the woods) and the heroine, Rautendelein, the elf-girl. Respighi confessed to having fallen in love with the character of Rautendelein. His wife, Elsa, observed that, in this opera, he revealed his predilection for the world of nature and fable. Respighi had a complex personality, torn between ascetic ideals, often reaching the domain of pantheistic mysticism and the sensual realities of the world.
George Hanson, Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra - Ottorino Respighi: Orchestral Works (2001)

George Hanson, Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra - Ottorino Respighi: Orchestral Works (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 69:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 335 1030-2 | Recorded: 2000

These rarely heard works offer listeners an introduction to very different aspects of Respighi's orchestral oeuvre. The mighty "Metamorphoseon", a breathtaking symphonic interpretation of Bach's C minor Passacaglia, a suite on themes by Rossini as well as the world premiere recording of an early burlesque are performed by the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by George Hanson.
Robert Treviño, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai - Ottorino Respighi: Roman Trilogy (2023)

Robert Treviño, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai - Ottorino Respighi: Roman Trilogy (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 67:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1425-2 | Recorded: 2022

After recordings of Beethoven’s complete symphonies, two Ravel albums, one Rautavaara album, and the award-winning album ‘Americascapes’, Robert Treviño now turns his focus on the symphonic poems by Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936).Together with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra Robert Treviño presents the composer’s famous Roman Trilogy, an exciting orchestral masterpiece culminating in the triumphant Pines of Rome.
Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.5: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy, Rossini, Beethoven, Respighi (2005)

Arturo Toscanini - The Television Concerts 1948-52 Vol.5: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy, Rossini, Beethoven, Respighi (2005)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7.22 Gb (DVD9) | 107 min
Classical | Testament

One of the most acclaimed musicians of his era, Toscanini was a conductor of the "old school" - aristocratic, perfectionistic and something of an autocrat on the podium. After a brief flurry of interest in Fascism in the 1910s, he rapidly became disillusioned with the movement and indeed became a personal rival of Mussolini, repeatedly antagonising him through acts of artistic defiance such as refusals to open concerts with the Fascist anthem Giovinezza.
John Neschling, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège - Ottorino Respighi: Gli uccelli; Antiche danze ed arie (2023)

John Neschling, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège - Ottorino Respighi: Gli uccelli; Antiche danze ed arie [Suites 1-3] (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 325 Mb | Total time: 75:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2540 | Recorded: 2021

With the present album, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege and John Neschling bring us the sixth and last instalment in a series that has been called 'the finest-ever survey of the composer's orchestral output undertaken by a single conductor' (BBC Music Magazine). The immense popularity of the Roman Trilogy has had the effect of obscuring many parts of Respighi's oeuvre, including arrangements of pieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.