Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa: Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141; Roman Festivals, P. 157; Fountains of Rome, P. 106 (The Original Source Series) 2LP CLAS-9 newly recorded by Vladimir Ashkenazy

newly recorded by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Valentina Lisitsa especially for this set

Day Seven is out now

Modest Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina / Act 4

CD 2 – Erich Kleiber

from Romeo and Juliet arr

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa: Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141; Roman Festivals, P. 157; Fountains of Rome, P. 106 (The Original Source Series) 2LP CLAS-9 newly recorded by Vladimir AshkenazyNo contemporary Italian was as successful an instrumental composer in the concert hall in the period after the First World War as Ottorino Respighi with his four movement symphonic poems Fountains Of Rome (1917), Pines Of Rome (1924) and Feste Romane (1929). In these works, programme music experienced a magnificent revival. Particularly noteworthy is Respighi's art of instrumentation, with which he rivaled orchestral composers such as Richard Strauss