Respighi: Crepuscolo - Songs / Fallon, Bushakev

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Release Date
June 3, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ottorino Respighi
    • PERFORMER
      Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 03, 2022
    • UPC
      7318599926322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2632
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. I Fauni

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    2. No. 2. Musica in horto

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    3. No. 3. Egle

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    4. No. 4. Acqua

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    5. No. 5. Crepuscolo

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    6. 6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 1. In alto mare

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    7. Contrasto, P. 66

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    8. L'ultima ebbrezza, P. 8

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    9. 6 Melodie, P. 89: No. 2. Abbandono

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    10. Stornellatrice, P. 69

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    11. No. 1. L'udir talvolta nominare

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    12. No. 2. Ma come potrei

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    13. No. 3. Ballata

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    14. No. 4. Bella porta di Rubini

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    15. No. 5. Canzone di Re Enzo

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    16. Storia breve, P. 52

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    17. 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6. Il giardino

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    18. 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 6. Pioggia

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    19. Lagrime, P. 9

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    20. No. 1. When the Kye come Hame

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    21. No. 2. Within a mile of Edinburgh town

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    22. No. 3. My heart's in the Highlands

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    23. No. 4. The Piper of Dundee

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    24. 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90: No. 1. O falce di luna

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    25. Notturno, P. 11

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz

    26. Nebbie, P. 64

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Performer: Timothy Fallon, Ammiel Bushakevitz


:"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