Respighi: Orchestral Works / John Neschling

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This 7-SACD collection includes recordings made by Brazilian-born conductor John Neschling of the orchestral works of Ottorino Respighi, alongside Puccini the best-known Italian composer of...

This 7-SACD collection includes recordings made by Brazilian-born conductor John Neschling of the orchestral works of Ottorino Respighi, alongside Puccini the best-known Italian composer of the first half of the twentieth century. Widely praised by the press, including BBC Music Magazine, which described them as ‘the finest-ever survey of the composer’s orchestral output undertaken by a single conductor’, these recordings reveal Respighi’s extraordinary range.

His transcriptions of works from the baroque period bear witness to his great musical refinement and are an example of the way in which people dared to adapt to current tastes at the beginning of the 20th century. His original compositions, whether symphonic poems, ballets or symphonic works, often call for a large orchestra, sometimes with the addition of numerous percussion instruments, piano, organ and even, in Pines of Rome, a phonograph, present a synthesis of the musical traditions of his native Italy and contemporary romantic, impressionist and neo-classical trends while remaining resolutely closed to modernist developments and atonality. Respighi’s lavish sound palette and the spirit that fills his scores were to find an echo in Hollywood film music, and John Williams considers him to be one of his most important influences.

Past praise of the previously released recordings included in this set:

Respighi: The Birds; Ancient Airs & Dances

These performances are uncommonly airy. Much of this music is suffused with an autumnal melancholy, and Neschling and his orchestra capture that very well.

-- Fanfare

Respighi: Metamorphoseon, etc.

All of the performances here are expert, but conductor John Neschling deserves particular credit for keeping things movement purposefully forward in the first two long, and mostly slowish, movements of the Belkis suite. The same work’s vulgar (let’s not kid ourselves) concluding Danza orgiastica also sounds more musical than usual–less like a back-alley gang bang–but with no loss of energy. The Liège orchestra plays with great bravura, and BIS’s SACD sonics, typically, are just terrific. In short, a very worthy entry in this ongoing series.

-- ClassicsToday.com

Respighi: Roman Trilogy / Neschling, Sao Paulo Symphony

The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra is a superb ensemble by any standards, and displays their virtuosity in the three Respighi symphonic poems.

-- SA-CD.net



Product Description:

  • Release Date: November 10, 2023


  • UPC: 7318599925202


  • Catalog Number: BIS-2520


  • Label: BIS


  • Number of Discs: 7


  • Period: Late Romantic


  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ottorino Respighi


  • Conductor: John Neschling


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Anna Caterina Antonacci



Works:

  1. Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P. 106

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: John Neschling


  2. Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P. 141

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: John Neschling


  3. Feste romane (Roman Festivals), P. 157

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: John Neschling


  4. Impressioni brasiliane (Brazilian Impressions), P. 153

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  5. La boutique fantasque, P. 120 (after Rossini)

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  6. Metamorphoseon modi XII, P. 169

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  7. Ballata delle gnomidi, Op. 124

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  8. Belkis, Queen of Sheba Suite, P. 177

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  9. Sinfonia drammatica, P. 102

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  10. Belfagor Overture, P. 140

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  11. Trittico botticelliano, P. 151

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  12. Il tramonto, P. 101

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Performer: Anna Caterina Antonacci (Soprano)

    Conductor: John Neschling


  13. Vetrate di chiesa, P. 150

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  14. Prelude and Fugue in D Major, P. 158 (after BWV 532)

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  15. Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, P. 159 (after BWV 582)

    Composer: Johann Sebastain Bach

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  16. 3 Chorales, P. 167 (after J.S. Bach)

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  17. 5 Études-tableaux, P. 160 (after S. Rachmaninoff)

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  18. Gli uccelli (The Birds), P. 154

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  19. Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (Ancient Airs and Dances), Suite No. 1, P. 109

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  20. Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (Ancient Airs and Dances), Suite No. 2, P. 138

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling


  21. Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (Ancient Airs and Dances), Suite No. 3, P. 172

    Composer: Ottorino Respighi

    Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

    Conductor: John Neschling