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Ottorino RespighiViolin Concerto (in A Major)/Aria/Suite for strings/RossinianaRelease date: June 2011 OR Receive FREE CD with a minimum $20 Donation and your name will appear in the season programs!Reviews: Naxos, 8.572333Salvatore Di VittorioOvertura Respighiana/Sinfonias Nos. 1 & 2/Ave Maria/Clarinet SonataRelease date: July 2011OR Receive FREE CD with a minimum $20 Donation and your name will appear in the season programs!Reviews: About Album Covers:
Respighi CD: Ottorino Respighi, 1914
(Courtesy of Respighi's great nieces Elsa and Gloria Pizzoli, and archive curator Potito Pedarra)
Di Vittorio CD: 'A View of Palermo from the Sea with the ‘Marino’ and Fashionable Folk', 1770
by Pietro Fabris, 1740-1792
(Courtesy of Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London)
Featured Artist: Laura Marzadori, violin
About this recording: Ottorino Respighi’s rediscovered First Violin Concerto of 1903, completed by Salvatore Di Vittorio in 2009, harks back to the concerto writing of Vivaldi and Mendelssohn, and foreshadows Respighi’s later masterworks such as Pines of Rome. The elegant Aria and lyrical Suite for strings reveal Respighi’s love of Baroque music, the latter an homage to Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite. Rossinana is an exquisite reworking of Gioacchino Rossini’s late piano pieces, Les riens (Trifles). - Gramophone Top 20 Classical Chart, WQXR Album of the Week
Featured Artists: Benjamin Baron, clarinet; The Respighi Choir
About this recording: Hailed by critics as “following in the footsteps of Respighi”, Salvatore Di Vittorio begin's his homage Overtura Respighiana with a reinvention of Respighi's introduction to Pines of Rome, then captures variations of Rossiniana and La Boutique Fantasque, and ends with a full-fledged Rossini rocket. Italian influences abound echo traces of the Renaissance to Vivaldi and Scarlatti for the Ave Maria and Sinfonia No. 1. The Sinfonia No. 2 then unravels Di Vittorio's Germanic influences stemming from Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss; while the
Clarinet Sonata returns to the world of French Baroque dances.
Soundclip: Respighi - Di Vittorio, III Movement from Concerto for Violin in A Major
Chamber Orchestra of New York, S. Di Vittorio (conductor)
