Ottorino Respighi's fame rests on his orchestral music, particularly his flamboyant tone poems such as The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome, and his charming faux-renaissance sets of Ancient Airs and Dances, but he also left a large body of chamber music, songs, and keyboard music, as well as nine completed operas and 11 ballets. On this BIS recording, the New Hellenic Quartet performs three of his works for string quartet, including one of his most popular non-orchestral pieces, Il Tramonto (The Sunset), a setting ...
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Ottorino Respighi's fame rests on his orchestral music, particularly his flamboyant tone poems such as The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome, and his charming faux-renaissance sets of Ancient Airs and Dances, but he also left a large body of chamber music, songs, and keyboard music, as well as nine completed operas and 11 ballets. On this BIS recording, the New Hellenic Quartet performs three of his works for string quartet, including one of his most popular non-orchestral pieces, Il Tramonto (The Sunset), a setting of a translation of a poem by Shelley, for mezzo-soprano and quartet. For listeners only familiar with the composer's extroverted orchestral music, the intimacy of the quartets will come as a revelation. Respighi's setting of Shelley's poem emphasizes its lyricism more than its romantic angst and is wonderfully effective in its understated evocation of the beauty of the natural world. The composer's control of the dramatic tension of the narrative through his use of modulation is...
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