Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances & Suite “The Birds” Transcriptions for Organ

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is one of the most important Italian composers of the first half of the 20th century. Famous for his sumptuous symphonic works (notably the Roman Trilogy) he had a fascination for the Italian Renaissance and Baroque, transcribing works by the old masters and using their modal techniques.

Composers: Ottorino Respighi
Artists: Rodolfo Bellatti (organ)

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Though not strictly born in the 1880s (1879), Respighi belonged to a group of composers known as the generazione dell’ottanta (The 80s Generation), who strived to assert, as they saw it, a renewed musical expression of authentically Italian musical culture. It was a conservative stance in terms of both musical approach and nationalism, but it resulted in Respighi and colleagues recovering unjustly neglected treasures from their Italian heritage. Respighi’s first international success, an arrangement of Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna, may be seen as the natural forerunner to the four suites of arrangements and transcriptions on this album.

While the intent may have been conservative, Respighi’s approach to what we now call ‘early music’ was notably liberal by our standards, marked as much by nostalgia and irony as erudition. Orchestration is much too weak a term to do justice to the process of subtle recomposition to which Respighi subjected his chosen originals.

Suite No.1 of the Ancient Airs & Dances consists of four pieces, yet Rodolfo Bellatti has moved its concluding Passo mezzo e Mascherada to the very end of the three suites in order to bring an authentically lively and upbeat close to the sequence as a whole. Many critics have singled out the Third Suite as the finest, perhaps because of its melancholy and reflective character.

Tracklist:
00:00:00 Balletto detto “il conte Orlando” (Ballet called “Earl Orlando”) Simone Molinaro (1599)
00:03:02 Villanella (Peasant Girl) Unknown (End. XVI Century)
00:06:31 Gagliarda (Charming Girl) Vincenzo Galilei (155.)
00:10:45 Italiana (Italian Girl) Unknown (End. XVI Century)
00:14:08 Passacaglia (Passacaglia) Lodovico Roncalli (1692)
00:18:04 Siciliana (Sicilian Girl) Unknown (End XVI Century)
00:21:43 Laura Soave (Pretty Laura) Fabrizio Carosio (1531…)
00:25:31 Bergamasca (Dance from Bergamo) Bernardo Gianoncelli Known as Il Bernardello (1650)
00:31:59 Arie di corte (Court Arias) Giovanni Battista Besardo (Sec.XVI)
00:39:59 Danza rustica (Country ballet) Giovanni Battista Besardo (1617)
00:43:04 Campanae Parisienses – Aria (Paris’ bells - Aria) Unknown (1600) / Marsenne Marin (1636)
00:49:12 Passo mezzo e mascherada (Passo mezzo and masquerade) Unknown (End XVI century)
00:53:25 Gli Uccelli The Birds - Suite (1928) - Organ Version by Rodolfo Bellatti: I. Preludio (Prelude) (from B.Pasquini, 1637-1710)
00:56:38 Gli Uccelli The Birds - Suite (1928) - Organ Version by Rodolfo Bellatti: II. La Colomba (The Dove) (from J.Gallot, 1670)
01:01:46 Gli Uccelli The Birds - Suite (1928) - Organ Version by Rodolfo Bellatti: III. La Gallina (The Hen) (from Ph. Rameau, 1683-1768)
01:05:26 Gli Uccelli The Birds - Suite (1928) - Organ Version by Rodolfo Bellatti: IV. L’Usignuolo (The Nightingale) (from an English Anonymous of the XVII century)
01:09:16 Gli Uccelli The Birds - Suite (1928) - Organ Version by Rodolfo Bellatti: V. Il Cucù (The Cuckoo) (from B.Pasquini, 1637-1710)

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