Seiji Ozawa 小澤征爾 - Boston Symphony Orchestra Respighi: Pines of Rome (The Original Source Series) 180g 2LP

100% Pure Analogue 180g Virgin Vinyl Double LP!

DG's The Original Source Series!

Pressed by Optimal!

No contemporary Italian was as successful as an instrumental composer in the concert hall in the period after the First World War as Ottorino Respighi with his four-movement symphonic poems Fountains of Rome (1917), Pines of Rome (1924) and Feste Romane (1929). In these works, programme music experienced a magnificent revival. Particularly noteworthy is Respighi's art of instrumentation, with which he rivaled orchestral composers such as Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel. He made use of a musical language distilled from many sources, a kind of 'Euro-Impressionism' that did not exclude modernist influences.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Features

The Original Source Series

100% Pure Analogue

180g Virgin Vinyl

Double LP

Mixed by Rainer Maillard & Cut by Sidney C. Meyer Directly from the Original 1 inch 8-track Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios

Pressed by Optimal

3 Sides of Music

Deluxe Gatefold

Musicians

Boston Symphony Orchestra  

Seiji Ozawa conductor

Selections

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

LP 1 - SIDE A:

RESPIGHI: PINES OF ROME, P. 141

I. I pini di Villa Borghese

II. Pini presso una catacomba

III. I pini del Gianicolo

IV. I pini della Via Appia

LP 1 - SIDE B:

RESPIGHI: ROMAN FESTIVALS, P. 157

I. Circenses

II. Il Giubileo

III. L'Ottobrata

IV. La Befana

LP 2 - SIDE C:

RESPIGHI: FOUNTAINS OF ROME, P. 106

I. The Valle Giulia Fountain at Dawn

II. The Triton Fountain in the Morning

III. The Trevi Fountain at Midday

IV. The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset