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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 […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-07-06 13:57:55
Film Composer Ennio Morricone, 91
Mr. Morricone scored many popular films of the past 40 years: Édouard Molinaro’s “La Cage aux Folles” (1978), Mr. Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982), Mr. De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987), Roman Polanski’s “Frantic” (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” (1988), Wolfgang Petersen’s “In the Line of Fire” (1993), and Mr. Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” (2015). – The […]
2017-07-01 01:00:00
[…] Capirola (1474-after 1548) Francesco da Milano (1497-1543) Christopher Wilson lute Metronome (1997) [flac, cue, log, scans] "Renaissance Music from the Courts of Mantua and Ferrara" vocal music by Marchetto Cara, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Diomedes, Anonymous instrumental music by Francesco Spinacino, Anonymous CIRCA 1500 (Emily Van Evera soprano, Nancy Hadden, Erin Headley, Christopher Wilson, Robert Meunier) Chandos CHAN 0524 (1984) [flac, cue, log, scans] "Ancient Airs and Dances" Simone Molinaro, Vincenzo Galilei, Fabritio Caroso, Jean-Baptiste Besard*, Santino Garsi da Parma 17th century: Antoine Boesset*, Bernardo Giannoncelli, Lodovico Roncalli, Anonymous Paul O'Dette with John Holloway, Nigel North, Christian Thielemann *Rogers Covey-Crump tenor Hyperion (1987) [flac, cue, log, covers] "This recording presents in their original form the lute pieces, songs and dances drawn upon by Respighi in his three Suites of Ancient Airs and Dances for orchestra." Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/26-1594) Missa […]
2015-11-29 06:48:00
[…] other one pretends to be older (“ancient”), but was written by the modern(ish) composer Ottorino Respighi, who is better known for his “Fountains of Rome” and “Pines of Rome.” Drawing on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, Respighi produced three sets of “Ancient Airs and Dances” and a suite title “The Birds.” In this suite, the first movement (Balleto, “Il Conte Orlando”) is based on a dance-like composition from around 1600 by Simone Molinaro. The basis of the lively second movement (Gagliarda) is attributed to Vincenzo Galilei, father of that Galilei. The third movement (Villanella)is in a 16thcentury Neapolitan song form; the last (Passo mezzo e mascherada) is a combination of an Italian form related to the French Pavane and a type of song performedat a masked ball. All this, gleaned from the Program Notes, sounds a lot more complicated than the music itself. A […]
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