The Plainfield Symphony Orchestra’s concert on April 26 will be “an immersive experience” featuring three works by renowned Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). Under the baton of Maestro ...

“Orchestral Blockbuster.” “Stereo Spectacular.” Such were the words used, in the heyday of hi-fi, to push records of the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s so-called “Roman Trilogy” of tone poems: ...

In this series, Donald Macleod explores Ottorino Respighi’s life and music from different perspectives, including his associations with Bologna, Rome and the USA; the important presence of his wife, ...

Mark Pullinger is seduced by Respighi at his most colourful in a 1934 suite culled from a ballet As a sucker for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to ...

Ottorino Respighi was among the greatest of orchestrators, and here he sumptuously transforms other composers' music. His sparkling arrangements of Rossini's late inspirations, the Sins of Old Age, ...

The composer’s Eternal City depictions are as much showpieces for recording engineers as they are for orchestras, says Mark Pullinger Toscanini was instrumental in the success of all three works.

Composed over the course of 12 tumultuous years – from Italy’s disastrous participation in the First World War (1915-6) to the consolidation of Mussolini’s regime (1928) - the Roman Trilogy shows the ...

This album is both by and for Respighi fanatics. It features the Chamber Orchestra of New York Ottorino Respighi, founded to promote his music in 2006 by Salvatore di Vittorio, a Sicilian-born ...

Ottorino Respighi was a big fan of the music that came a few centuries before him, and he often re-tooled the old formulas to fit his music. Jesus Lopez Cobos leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in ...

Composed over the course of 12 tumultuous years – from Italy’s disastrous participation in the First World War (1915-6) to the consolidation of Mussolini’s regime (1928) - the Roman Trilogy shows the ...