Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa – Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141; Roman Festivals, P. 157; Fountains of Rome, P. 106 – Vinyl LP

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No contemporary Italian was as successful an instrumental composer in the concert hall in the period after the First World War as Ottorino Respighi with his four-movement symphonic poems ‘Fountains of Rome’ (1917), ‘Pines of Rome’ (1924) and ‘Feste Romane’ (1929). In these works, programme music experienced a magnificent revival. Particularly noteworthy is Respighi’s art of instrumentation, with which he rivaled orchestral composers such as Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel. He made use of a musical language distilled from many sources, a kind of ‘Euro-impressionism’ that did not exclude modernist influences.

Disc: 1
1 I Pini Di Villa Borghese
2 Pini Presso Una Catacomba
3 I Pini Del Gianicolo
4 I Pini Della Via Appia
5 Circenses
6 Il Giubileo
7 L’ottobrata
8 La Befana

Disc: 2
1 The Valle Giulia Fountain at Dawn
2 The Triton Fountain in the Morning
3 The Trevi Fountain at Midday
4 The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset