I wish that Respighi were better known and appreciated. His gift for melody and composition are supreme. His music is so evocative of whatever subject that he’s portraying in notes and sound that you can see the pictures in your mind. Respighi is in a category all by himself.🎵
Conchamar, have you listened to Respighi’s lesser known works such as “The Birds”, “Church Windows”, “Ancient Airs and Dances Suites 1 and 2” and “Adagio Con Varrietzion” for cello and orchestra? As much as I love “The Pines of Rome” and “Fountains of Rome” I love these pieces equally. Rimsky-Kosakov, Respighi and Ravel are considered to be the greatest of all orchestrators in all of the history of classical music. What’s interesting is that both Respighi and Ravel studied orchestration from Rimsky. His ideas must’ve made a profound impact on these two students. If you listen to the music written by all three men each has their own unique style and yet the way they orchestrated their music you can almost immediately tell that they understand the same special musical language that no other composers, not even the likes of Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schubert et al have managed to learn.🎵
Ottorino Respighi:Templomablakok 1. La fuga in Egitto (Menekülés Egyiptomba, Molto lento) 00:00 2. San Michele Arcangelo (Szent Mihály arkangyal, Allegro tempestoso) 06:46 3. Il Mattutino di Santa Chiara (Szent Klára matutinuma, Lento) 12:57 4. San Gregorio Magno (Nagy Szent Gergely, Lento) 18:25 Cincinnati Szimfonikus Zenekar Vezényel:Jesús López-Cobos
Many, many thanks for uploading this! I've wanted to peruse the score for years. This may very well be my favorite Respighi piece. As far as I'm concerned, he had few equals in orchestration. Thanks again! Keep doing this! There are those of us out who *really* appreciate all your efforts!
That thunderous entrance of the full plenum and tutti on the organ at 22:54 just had me in pure disbelief. It’s as if the powers of God himself spoke in the most earthmoving and grandiose fashion!!Absolutely sublime!
Respighi, l'un des plus grands symphonistes de l'histoire de la musique signe avec cette suite, une vision évocatrice et saisissante de ce que racontent ces vitraux. Du grand art. Une interprétation fort séduisante et une belle présence de l'orgue. Merci à Bartje Bartmans pour ce bon choix.
D'une poésie admirable. À travers la rose du vitrail quelle beauté l'on pressent dès l'entrée grâce au mode ecclésiastique... que la musique nous donne à voir avec une sorte de grandeur et de sérénité ensorcelantes !
also kudos to that bass trombone player when I first listened to this months ago I thought that was an entire ensemble of trombones, it blows my mind how just a single well-practiced trombone (and tuba lol) can come out over an entire orchestra playing at full blast
from what I understand, the bass trombone and tuba part are written on the same part. so I guess I was a bit off - it was the bass trombone and tuba. still really impressive though!
Half the orchestra is playing a triplet pattern for 2 beats which becomes an eighth note pattern for 2 beats, while the other half does the opposite at the same time, then every 2 measures the halves switch. It's super complicated and not really important so long as it comes out as a wash of sounds echoing and imitating each other. It's great.
That's not an appropriate use for the harp... long monophonic solos are not what harps are good at. You couldn't control the phrase properly, the crescendo and diminuendo would be very hard to convey and since you can't control sustain on the harp it would become quite blurry. If anything, the harp could double the clarinet.
