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Respighi: Crepuscolo - Songs / Fallon, Bushakev
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Respighi: Crepuscolo - Songs / Fallon, Bushakev

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Composer
Ottorino Respighi
Artist
Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jun 03, 2022
Catalog #
BIS-2632
UPC
7318599926322

About

:"Crepuscolo" is the final song in Ottorino Respighi’s song cycle Deità silvane (‘woodland deities’), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as atonality, spiky neoclassicism, and Italian futurism flourished. In reaction to these developments, Respighi in 1932 famously signed a manifesto calling for music with a ‘human content’ – in other words, a continuation of Romanticism. His songs certainly live up to this: as Elsa Respighi, the composer’s wife, once said, it was to his songs that he ‘entrusts his heart’s hidden secrets, when he lets his soul sing freely.’ From L’ultima ebbrezza, composed when Respighi was only 17 years old, to the Four Scottish Songs from 1924, the songs recorded here attest to the variety of his musical interests, influences and styles, and are at turns lyrically operatic, expressionist, impressionist or symbolist. Respighi’s love of the Renaissance is also manifest in the Cinque canti all’antica, settings of poets including Boccaccio.

Timothy Fallon and Ammiel Bushakevitz have previously released a Liszt recital described as ‘superb’ in Gramophone. They have now devised a varied program which takes in three complete groups as well as a selection of individual songs, including Respighi’s most popular songs (Nebbie, Stornellatrice) as well as less well known ones.

REVIEWS:

With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known orchestral works fade in significance, especially with this new cross section of the composer’s songs...this newcomer makes a great case for a single-disc collection thanks to a smart sense of musical variety in the sequencing plus the passionate, elegant performances by lyric tenor Timothy Fallon and his longtime collaborator, pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz.

Fallon is no newcomer...but maintains a youthful sensibility that takes the poems at face value, never looking outside of them, aided by a warm, Italianate tone that lends itself to the musical simplicity of the Scottish folk songs as well as the operatic histrionics of ‘Stornellatrice’ (‘Balladeer’)...Bushakevitz’s sonority and sense of comprehension suggest the lilac-scented, silk-upholstered parlours seen in Luchino Visconti movies, but make such a good case for the more distilled piano versions that, at least for the moment, you wouldn’t want to hear the music any other way.

-- Gramophone

Tracklist 26 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. I Fauni 02:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. I Fauni
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  2. 2 No. 2. Musica in horto 01:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Musica in horto
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  3. 3 No. 3. Egle 03:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Egle
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  4. 4 No. 4. Acqua 02:54
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Acqua
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  5. 5 No. 5. Crepuscolo 04:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Crepuscolo
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  6. 6 6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 1. In alto mare 01:00
    Track
    6
    Title
    6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 1. In alto mare
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  7. 7 Contrasto, P. 66 02:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    Contrasto, P. 66
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  8. 8 L'ultima ebbrezza, P. 8 03:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    L'ultima ebbrezza, P. 8
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  9. 9 6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 2. Abbandono 02:03
    Track
    9
    Title
    6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 2. Abbandono
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  10. 10 Stornellatrice, P. 69 01:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    Stornellatrice, P. 69
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  11. 11 No. 1. L'udir talvolta nominare 01:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. L'udir talvolta nominare
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  12. 12 No. 2. Ma come potrei 01:48
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Ma come potrei
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  13. 13 No. 3. Ballata 01:36
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. Ballata
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  14. 14 No. 4. Bella porta di Rubini 01:56
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. Bella porta di Rubini
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  15. 15 No. 5. Canzone di Re Enzo 02:49
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. Canzone di Re Enzo
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  16. 16 Storia breve, P. 52 02:24
    Track
    16
    Title
    Storia breve, P. 52
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  17. 17 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6. Il giardino 04:00
    Track
    17
    Title
    6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6. Il giardino
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  18. 18 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 6. Pioggia 02:19
    Track
    18
    Title
    6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 6. Pioggia
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  19. 19 Lagrime, P. 9 03:59
    Track
    19
    Title
    Lagrime, P. 9
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  20. 20 No. 1. When the Kye come Hame 05:14
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. When the Kye come Hame
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  21. 21 No. 2. Within a mile of Edinburgh town 03:30
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. Within a mile of Edinburgh town
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  22. 22 No. 3. My heart's in the Highlands 03:57
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. My heart's in the Highlands
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  23. 23 No. 4. The Piper of Dundee 02:17
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 4. The Piper of Dundee
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  24. 24 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 1. O falce di luna 02:56
    Track
    24
    Title
    6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 1. O falce di luna
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  25. 25 Notturno, P. 11 03:39
    Track
    25
    Title
    Notturno, P. 11
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
  26. 26 Nebbie, P. 64 02:51
    Track
    26
    Title
    Nebbie, P. 64
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Performer
    Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz