This page lists all recordings of Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma), by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) on CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. Pines of Rome, completed in 1924, takes specific locations as pegs for a combination of historical and contemporary inspiration - children playing in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, the entrance to a catacomb from which an ancient, solemn chant is heard, the tranquillity of the moonlit Gianicolo Hill and finally the march of a Roman legion on the Appian Way triumphantly approaching the Capitoline Hill. |
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Casella: | La Giara Suite, Op. 41bis Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali | Ghedini: | Quattro pezzi di Gerolamo Frescobaldi Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali | Petrassi: | Concerto No. 1 for Orchestra Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali | Respighi: | Pines of Rome Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali | Wolf-Ferrari: | Il segreto di Susanna Overture Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nello Santi Il campiello Overture Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nello Santi La Dama Boba (the Backward Woman) Overture Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nello Santi I quattro rusteghi (The School for Fathers): Overture; Intermezzo Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nello Santi I Gioielli Della Madonna (the Jewels of the Madonna) Suite Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nello Santi |
Five composers, three LPs, an all-Italian, all-rare 2CD compendium. Fernando Previtali’s orchestral recordings for Decca of music by Respighi, Casella, Ghedini, Petrassi and Casella were recorded in July 1956 and had a relatively short lifespan. Other than Respighi’s Pines of Rome, the remaining music was then – as it is now – largely unfamiliar to the concert-going and record-buying public. Another disc of late-19th/early-20th century orchestral music, conducted by Nello Santi, of some particularly piquant music by Wolf-Ferrari completes what is bound to be a much sought-after release. “Previtali does the outer movements [of the Pines of Rome] with the greatest liveliness, the quiet inner ones with sensitivity […] The music [of La giara] is lively stuff of no great consequence but attractive enough in an unpretentious way. Good light listening” Gramophone Magazine “This recording is recommended to those particularly interested in Italian opera overtures and intermezzi … the playing is good and the recording good too’” Gramophone Magazine (Wolf-Ferrari) |
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| |  | Fellini, Jazz & Co.Recorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2011
The Waldbühne in Berlin is one of Europe’s ideal outdoor amphitheatres. It is home to the Berlin Philharmonic’s summer concerts, which are among the most popular classical events in the world, attracting audiences of 20,000 or more people. In July 2011 the orchestra, under the ebullient direction of Riccardo Chailly, presented this concert of effervescent works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Nino Rota and Ottorino Respighi. All three composers possessed an unerring instinct for composing music that is guaranteed to please the ear of the listener. In their own individual ways, each of them powerfully demonstrates a phenomenal handling of tone colour. Their music sparkles with light one moment and lurks in the shadows the next. Riccardo Chailly is famous for having one of the broadest repertoires in the business, ranging from the orchestral highways of Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner through to the 20th century byways via Bach, the core operatic repertoire and almost anything else - he is an omnivore, with the brilliance to match. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 105 mins “Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome sound absolutely ravishing here - one can only sit in awe at such fine-tuned (in every way) virtuosity...Bravo!” International Record Review, June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Respighi: Roman Trilogy
This magnificent trilogy of symphonic poems is the best-known work of Ottorini Respighi. A native of Bologna, he became a professor at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and paid tribute to the history, scenery and life of the Immortal City in these richly coloured and evocative scores. ‘The playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra is past praise’ wrote Gramophone of this recording, finding Riccardo Muti ‘outstanding in the idiomatic feel of rhythm and phrasing’. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Respighi’s Roman Trilogy is probably among the most spectacularly orchestrated works in the repertoire. The vivid colours and sounds of Imperial Roman life are brought to life in these works – from the violence in the Coliseum, to the legions marching with grim determination along the Appian Way, to children playing around a fountain on a hot Roman summer’s day. All are here in the musical equivalent of glorious Technicolor. Josep Caballé-Domenech studied with Sir Colin Davis as part of the coveted Rolex Mentor scheme and had further studies with David Zinman. He regularly conducts the Royal Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, and orchestras in Spain and the US. “surely, once in a while, we should indulge in this outrageous music, especially in these highly charged and glossy performances.” Sunday Times, 14th August 2011 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Respighi’s Roman Trilogy (the tone poems Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome and Roman Festivals) holds a very special place in the orchestral repertory, challenging almost any other composition for sheer sonic audience appeal. “Rarely has this music sounded so well on CD...The Trevi fountain dénouement and climax section of Pines let rip, but Neschling also unearths startling subtleties. Festivals tends to be played as a blunt crowd-pleaser, but Neschling is careful to emphasisie the push-pull rhythmic contrasts of the finale and incidental details...The best Roman trilogy of recent times.” Classic FM Magazine, February 2011 ***** “It may seem bold of BIS to rely on a relatively untried orchestra and its Brazilian conductor but such confidence has amply paid off...The spectacular BIS recording in SACD brings out all the atmospheric qualities” Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 “A criticism often levelled at the sequence is that the works themselves tend to become more ostentatious as they proceed: to which end, John Neschling's ample textural refinement and rhythmic incisiveness is its own justification.” International Record Review, January 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Respighi - Pines of Rome & Fountains of Rome
This release gathers together - under the perceptive and sympathetic musicianship of Ernest Ansermet - a selection of music by (and refashioned by) Ottorino Respighi with a very high quotient of colour, atmosphere, rhythmic vitality and touching lyricism. The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome are two-thirds of the composer's Roman Trilogy (the third part, composed last, being Feste Romane - Roman Festivals - which Ansermet did not record) and which celebrate in music the glories and history of the city of Rome. La Boutique Fantasque (The Fantastic Toyshop) is one of many ballet scores composed for the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. The release of the 1963 recording of the Respighi tone poems was widely praised for its superlative sound. And the very fine recording of La boutique fantasque was made not in Geneva, for once, but at Kingsway Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra; it is much sought-after and has become something of a collector's item. This is its first international release on Decca. It is a performance full of musical incident, further pepped up by Ansermet's balletic and theatrical instincts - the product of his experience of having conducted 'for the ballet' over many years. "...a very great quantity of splendid sound on offer..." Gramophone (Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome). "...sets the standard for completeness, elegance of performance...a glowing account." Gramophone (La boutique fantasque). | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Respighi: | Il tramonto Recorded: 11-23 January 2007, Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome Christine Rice Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma, Antonio Pappano Pines of Rome Recorded: 10 & 12 November 1984, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti Fountains of Rome Recorded: 10 & 12 November 1984, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti Roman Festivals Recorded: 10 & 12 November 1984, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti The Birds Recorded: 30-31 January 1976, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Trittico Botticelliano Recorded: 30-31 January 1976, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner La Sensitiva Recorded: 22 & 24 February 1990, Henry Wood Hall, London Dame Janet Baker City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox |
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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 “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.” BBC Music Magazine, 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? 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.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 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? 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.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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