LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW “... As a young man, Ottorino Respighi travelled all the way from Italy to St. Petersburg. He found a job as violinist in the imperial orchestra and studied composition and orchestration with Nikolai Rimski Korsakov. Back home in Italy, Respighi became one of the most outspoken orchestrators of the early twentieth century. Today, Live at the Concertgebouw, you can listen to his symphonic poem Pini di Roma, Roman Pines, including children playing under its branches, a nightingale singing, medieval monks singing plainchant and echos of Roman soldiers on the Via Appia.." [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]
 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor
Maria Riccarda Wesseling, mezzo-soprano
 
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op. 21
Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, op. 7
Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma
 
 

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