Ottorino Respighi: Five favourite works.

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vandermolen

June 10, 2015, 11:26:57 AM
Church Windows
Three Botticelli Pictures
Concerto Gregoriano for Violin and Orchestra
Concerto in Modo Misolidio
The Pines of Rome
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

springrite

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June 10, 2015, 11:28:19 AM Last Edit: June 10, 2015, 11:32:15 AM by springrite
Quote from: vandermolen on June 10, 2015, 11:26:57 AM
Church Windows
Three Botticelli Pictures
Concerto Gregoriano for Violin and Orchestra
Concerto in Modo Misolidio
The Pines of Rome

Change the Concerto Gregoriano for Violin and Orchestra to the violin sonata and you get my list.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

vandermolen

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June 10, 2015, 11:39:48 AM
Quote from: springrite on June 10, 2015, 11:28:19 AM
Change the Concerto Gregoriano for Violin and Orchestra to the violin sonata and you get my list.
You replied quickly  :)

Do you know what? I was thinking about the Violin Sonata but I have not heard it for agrees - I remember that it was excellent too.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Christo

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June 10, 2015, 12:01:31 PM Last Edit: June 10, 2015, 11:12:46 PM by Christo
'Late' Respighi is a category of its own, for me; all my first choices stemming from his later years:

Concerto Gregoriano for violin and orchestra (1921) or Quartetto Dorico (Doric String Quartet) (1924)
Trittico Botticelliano (1928)
Lauda per la Natività del Signore (1930), cantata for soloists, chorus and chamber ensemble
Metamorphoseon: Modi XII (his 'Concerto for Orchestra') (1930)
Maria egiziaca (1932), opera or 'mystery play'

(No complaints about the 'Roman Trilogy' either, though I like the refined first-born Fontane di Roma (1916) most.)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

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June 10, 2015, 12:22:55 PM
Quote from: Christo on June 10, 2015, 12:01:31 PM
'Late' Respighi is a category of its own, for me; all my first choices stem from his later years:

Concerto Gregoriano for violin and orchestra (1921) or Quartetto Dorico (Doric String Quartet) (1924)
Trittico Botticelliano (1928)
Lauda per la Natività del Signore (1930), cantata for soloists, chorus and chamber ensemble
Metamorphoseon: Modi XII (his 'Concerto for Orchestra') (1930)
Maria egiziaca (1932), opera or 'mystery play'

(No complaints about the 'Roman Trilogy' either, though I like the more refined first-born Fontane di Roma (1916) most.)

The Metamorphoseon is a very fine work which I should really have included. I also like the Suite for Organ and String Orchestra and the short cello/orchestral work whose title I have forgotten.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

ZauberdrachenNr.7

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June 10, 2015, 01:48:28 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 10, 2015, 11:39:48 AM
You replied quickly  :)

Do you know what? I was thinking about the Violin Sonata but I have not heard it for agrees - I remember that it was excellent too.

You guys are undoubtedly thinking of his B minor Violin Sonata, but just for the record he wrote two of 'em, the other, a product of his youth, in D minor.  Sì, ce ne sono due.

vandermolen

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June 11, 2015, 11:38:27 AM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on June 10, 2015, 01:48:28 PM
You guys are undoubtedly thinking of his B minor Violin Sonata, but just for the record he wrote two of 'em, the other, a product of his youth, in D minor.  Sì, ce ne sono due.
Many thanks  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Mirror Image

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June 11, 2015, 06:37:46 PM
This is too easy! ;) ;D In no particular order:

Vetrate di chiesa
Pini di Roma
Metamorphoseon
Trittico Botticelliano
Concerto Gregoriano

Lisztianwagner

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June 12, 2015, 11:02:36 AM Last Edit: June 29, 2015, 02:47:03 PM by Lisztianwagner
Pini di Roma
Fontane di Roma
Vetrate di chiesa
Belkis, Regina di Saba
Feste Romane
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

vandermolen

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June 12, 2015, 09:45:18 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 11, 2015, 06:37:46 PM
This is too easy! ;) ;D In no particular order:

Vetrate di chiesa
Pini di Roma
Metamorphoseon
Trittico Botticelliano
Concerto Gregoriano

We have similar musical tastes. I was just about to start a 'five favourite Samuel Barber works' when you beat me to it using a more or less identical selection. Great minds... :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Mirror Image

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June 12, 2015, 09:58:48 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 12, 2015, 09:45:18 PM
We have similar musical tastes. I was just about to start a 'five favourite Samuel Barber works' when you beat me to it using a more or less identical selection. Great minds... :)

Thanks! Indeed, Jeffrey. ;D

Christo

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June 12, 2015, 11:44:45 PM
Why not start a 'Your first two hundred favourite Villa-Lobos works'.   8)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

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June 13, 2015, 01:05:02 AM
Quote from: Christo on June 12, 2015, 11:44:45 PM
Why not start a 'Your first two hundred favourite Villa-Lobos works'.   8)

Brilliant idea!

Perhaps you could start a 'favourite eighteen works incorporating a wind machine'  ;)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Jo498

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June 13, 2015, 01:45:36 AM
Which recording would you recommend for the "concerto gregoriano"? There is one on Chandos and another, apparently an italian recording with artists I never heard of but with an interesting coupling (Petrassi and Dallapiccola). Does anyone know this one?

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Christo

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June 13, 2015, 01:58:51 AM
I own at least three recordings of the Concerto Gregoriano, one by violist Victor Simciscko (and the Slovak SO under Ondrej Lenard) on the Campion label, and a better known with violist Andrea Cappelletti (and the Philharmonia under Matthias Bamert) for Koch Schwann.

But my preferrred version, because of the glorious Chandos sound and always glorious soloist too, is the one by Lydia Mordkovitch:
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

EigenUser

#15
June 13, 2015, 02:09:24 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 13, 2015, 01:05:02 AM
Perhaps you could start a 'favourite eighteen works incorporating a wind machine'  ;)
Pfffft, easy --
Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles...
Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe

...

never mind, not so easy...

Five favorite works with a gramophone recording of a birdcall?
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

vandermolen

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June 13, 2015, 04:17:35 AM
Quote from: Jo498 on June 13, 2015, 01:45:36 AM
Which recording would you recommend for the "concerto gregoriano"? There is one on Chandos and another, apparently an italian recording with artists I never heard of but with an interesting coupling (Petrassi and Dallapiccola). Does anyone know this one?

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This is my favourite but probably because it's the first one I knew:
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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