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Pappano's gift to constantly delve well beyond the reputation these tone-poems have as technically brilliant display pieces devoid of deeper content. Try to listen, for instance, to the plangency... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: 3944292
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 80 minutes

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Work length17:14

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2007-01-23
Recording Venue: 11th - 23rd January 2007; Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

I. La fontana di Valle Giulia all'alba

Track length5:15

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II. La fontana del Tritone mattino

Track length2:33

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III. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio

Track length3:15

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IV. La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto

Track length6:11

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Respighi: Pines of Rome

Work length23:05

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2007-01-23
Recording Venue: 11th - 23rd January 2007; Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

I. I pini di Villa Borghese

Track length2:37

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II. Pini presso una catacomba

Track length7:10

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III. I pini del Gianiclo

Track length7:42

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IV. I pini di Via Appia

Track length5:36

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Respighi: Il Tramonto (lyric poem for mezzo-soprano & string orchestra)

Work length15:53

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Christine Rice (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2007-01-23
Recording Venue: 11th - 23rd January 2007; Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

Respighi: Roman Festivals

Work length24:26

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2007-01-23
Recording Venue: 11th - 23rd January 2007; Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

I. Circenses

Track length4:33

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II. Il Giubileo

Track length6:32

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III. L'Ottobrata

Track length7:57

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IV. La Befana

Track length5:24

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"I feel very honoured and privileged to be able to conduct this music with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia not only because it's my orchestra now but because the Fountains and the Pines of Rome were written for this orchestra and were premiered by this orchestra. And the Roman Festivals were premiered by the New York Philharmonic with Toscanini conducting but this orchestra played the Italian premiere." Antonio Pappano

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November 2007

Pappano's gift to constantly delve well beyond the reputation these tone-poems have as technically brilliant display pieces devoid of deeper content. Try to listen, for instance, to the plangency of the woodwind playing at the rapt opening of 'Fountain of Valle Giulia', or the translucent sifting of textures in a magical 'Villa Medici Fountain', without becoming riveted.

2010

What more appropriate orchestra to record the three Roman colour-scapes of Respighi than Rome's greatest orchestra under its music director, Antonio Pappano? In every way this new version is more than a match for the fine Dutoit version of the trilogy (Decca). As in Italian opera, Pappano has a natural feeling for flexible phrasing without exaggeration, and here he has even more resilience in his springing of rhythms than Dutoit, while the fine EMI recording offers clean separation and a wide dynamic range to match even the brilliant Decca.
It adds to the attractions of the disc that as a bonus Pappano offers the lovely setting of Shelley in translation for mezzo and strings, Il tramonto ('The Sunset'), beautifully sung with clear, firm tone by Christine Rice. Dutoit puts the trilogy pieces in his chosen order while Pappano presents them in chronological order, ending with the noisiest – and least inspired – Roman Festivals.
Nonetheless, Pappano conducts that, as he does the earlier two pieces, with all the flamboyance needed for such boldly extrovert music.
These are unashamed picture-postcards in music, and the images they evoke are always exceptionally vivid. One slight reservation is that the recording of a nightingale that the adventurous Respighi includes towards the close of the 'The Pines of the Janiculum' is so faint you can barely hear it. Pappano's trilogy now stands as a model for a colourful and ideal coupling, particularly with such an apt fill-up as Iltramonto.

November 2007

What more appropriate orchestra to record the three Roman colour-scapes of Respighi than Rome's greatest orchestra under its music director, Antonio Pappano? As in Italian opera, Pappano has a natural feeling for flexible phrasing without exaggeration. ...while the fine EMI recording offers clean separation and a wide dynamic range to match even the brilliant Decca. ...as a bonus Pappano offers the lovely setting of Shelley in translation for mezzo and strings, Il tramonto ("The Sunset"), beautifully sung with clear, firm tone by Christine Rice.

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