Ottorino Respighi - La boutique fantasque; Danses et airs anciens; Passacaille et Fugue (Doráti; Goossens; Monteux)

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Composer: Ottorino Respighi

• Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1, P. 109
• La boutique fantasque, P. 120
• J.S. Bach - Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (orch. Ottorino Respighi, P. 159)

Philharmonia Hungarica / Antal Doráti

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Eugene Goossens

Boston Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux

Date: 2025

Label: Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) was an Italian composer celebrated for bringing Russian orchestral color and Strauss-like harmonic intensity into Italian music. Trained in Bologna and under Rimsky-Korsakov, he gained mastery of orchestration and composition. His early works, including Re Enzo and Semirama, earned him recognition and a professorship at the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome, where he later served as director. Respighi is best remembered for his Roman tone poems—Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome, and Roman Festivals—as well as Church Windows, The Birds, and arrangements of early Italian and Rossini works. His operas had modest success, with Belfagor and La fiamma notable among them.