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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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In Reply to: Discovered Obscure Work......... [yt] posted by Todd Krieger on September 18, 2021 at 01:32:49:
Three of the movements are based on Respighi's earlier piano works. (The title of the piano pieces is "Three Gregorian Preludes" or "Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies".) I hear the work as echt Respighi and do not hear the influences of the other composers you mention, although the work conjures up for me plenty of "gladiator" and/or "biblical epic" scores by movie composers who were influenced by Respighi. The composer's orchestrations are so effective that there have been a number of "audiophile" recordings of the work, starting with the Keith Clark / Pacific SO recording on the Reference label which, IIRC, was partially financed by HP of TAS fame. There's also a much earlier (and very fine - but mono only!) recording on Mercury of this work, which was remastered by by Tom Fine a few years ago. Ormandy had a nice recording of the work too. Other recordings I've liked over the years include Lopez-Cobos (the conductor in your link) / Cincinnati SO on Telarc and (probably my favorite at the moment) John Neschling / Royal Liege PO on BIS. There are also a couple of excellent recordings of the original piano pieces which Respighi orchestrated - Shcherbakov on Naxos and Babayan on the ProPiano label.
Here's Babayan's performance on YouTube of the first Prelude which, when orchestrated, became "The Flight into Egypt":
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Just beautiful!
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Follow Ups
- That's a wonderful work! - Chris from Lafayette 11:01:03 09/18/21 (3)
- RE: That's a wonderful work! - Todd Krieger 19:17:46 09/18/21 (0)
- I have the John Neschling recording as well, like it and listened to it today - John N 13:46:07 09/18/21 (1)
- I like all of his Respighi recordings - Chris from Lafayette 00:15:25 09/19/21 (0)
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