Respighi Concerto in modo misolidio; Fontane di Roma
Roman pictures in Helsinki with Respighi’s modal concerto
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Composer or Director: Ottorino Respighi
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Ondine
Magazine Review Date: 11/2011
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ODE11652
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto in modo misolidio |
Ottorino Respighi, Composer
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Olli Mustonen, Piano Ottorino Respighi, Composer Sakari Oramo, Conductor |
Fontane di Roma, 'Fountains of Rome' |
Ottorino Respighi, Composer
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Ottorino Respighi, Composer Sakari Oramo, Conductor |
Author: Jeremy Nicholas
Personally, I found it hard to get a handle on even after three hearings. Its amorphous form, constant internal shifts of rhythm and focus, and episodic nature managed to keep me at arm’s length, admiring Respighi’s craftsmanship but not, in terms of a satisfying concert experience, the work, described by one writer as ‘stylised neo-archaic’. The slow movement is, perhaps, the most rewarding with its elegiac opening theme on the lower strings. Mustonen, with that chilly piano tone he prefers, is a fluent and committed soloist.
Fountains of Rome brings us to more familiar (and competitive) territory. Helsinki’s House of Culture has a dry acoustic, allowing Oramo and his Finnish players to give us a highly atmospheric reading of exemplary clarity and, in the ‘Trevi Fountain’, powerful dramatic effect. But the warmer bloom of Rome’s Sala Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano conducting the complete Roman Trilogy makes his version (EMI, 11/07) preferable.
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