Word: respighi
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...more classical feel of the orchestral sections. Also in the second half of the performance the BSO invited some talented young musicians to perform with them: a children's choir joined the orchestra for Orff's "Carmina Burana" and several talented high school brass players came on stage for Respighi's "Pines of Rome...
...explosive program. While less well-known than the opener, "The Pines of Rome" is an equally moving experience which was perhaps even more effective in reaching out to the community in a unique way. Exposure to Beethoven and even Orff can come from The Looney Tunes, but Respighi is an experience rarely appreciated by non-classical music listeners, despite the emotional power of his work. Pieces like this, or Lin's Tchaikovsky, or even the improvised new arrangement of Gershwin are what makes a live performance unique and worth sharing with the public...
...Violin Concerto in G by Haydn, with the orchestra accompanying. As the strings echoed and flourished the soloist's line, it was evident that MSO not only had energy but also a thorough command over style and technique. The highlight of the evening came at the end with Ottorino Respighi's The Birds, a piece incorporating the voices of four birds. MSO charmed the audience as it took on the voices of these birds one by one. From the graciousness of the dove to the sharp call of the hen MSO showed off its talents...
...first tour of the United States, which will culminate in a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center on Nov. 2. Aside from Schubert and Mahler, the Royal Philharmonic repertoire includes Schumann's Piano Concerto, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 8, as well as Respighi's Fountains of Rome, a piece just recorded in the first installment of Gatti's contract with BMG's Conifer Classics label...
...contemporary listener, the mystique seems hard to fathom. The core of Toscanini's repertoire was small -- Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner made up 40% of his New York Philharmonic programs; Puccini and Verdi were favorites in the opera house -- and his interest in contemporary music, aside from fellow Italians like Respighi, was almost nil. The famous RCA recordings of the Beethoven symphonies now sound febrile and coarse. Even the conductor's notorious temper and torrents of epithets, which once seemed so romantically apposite -- no musician had really lived until Toscanini called him Porco! (pig) -- come off today as operatic posturing...