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Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances (CD review)
Also, Concerto all’antica. David Alongna, violin; Salvatore Di Vittorio, Chamber Orchestra of New York. Naxos 8.573901.By John J. PuccioItalian composer and violinist Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is probably best known for his trilogy of tone-poem suites The Pines, Fountains, and Festivals of Rome. However, coming close on their heels is his Ancient Airs and Dances, here presented on a Naxos CD by Maestro Salvatore Di Vittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York.Respighi wrote three suites of Ancient Airs and Dances (1917, 1923, and 1931), the music freely adapted from original sixteenth-century pieces for lute. He based the first suite on various Renaissance works by Simone Molinaro, Vincenzo Galilei, and a few other anonymous composers. He based the second suite on works for lute, archlute, and viol by Fabritio Caroso, Jean-Baptiste Besard, Bernardo Gianoncelli, an anonymous composer, and an aria attributed to Marin Mersenne. The third suite Respighi based on lute and […]
2017-08-18 01:00:00
[…] Revecy venir du Printans (Claude Le Jeune) "Le Printemps," 1513 (Posthumous work in "Vers mesurès a l'antique") Here is one of the most characteristic pieces the Renaissance has left us, with its masterly writing and remarkable rhythm and form. All the verses except one are based on uu—u -u … that is, two shorts, a long and a short, a long and a short, and two longs. The ornaments that Mersenne calls crispaturae vocum ("vocal curls") represent here and there the small change. This work is composed of two elements: the rechant and the chant (refrain and strophe). The rechant is syllabic and in 5 voices (notice the vocalize of the tenor that adorns it): it is repeated without change, but the chant is exposed in varying versions, first by 2, then by 3, by 4, and finally by 5 […]
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