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, ...

It may be, as some claim, that there are no true titans in the conducting profession anymore. Georg Solti’s recent death seemed to add punctuation to this view. Nevertheless, there certainly is an ...

Pacific Symphony, under the direction of Music Director Carl St.Clair, presents Respighi's celebrated "Pines of Rome" from February 6 to 8. The concert features world premieres of two commissioned ...

But it’s doubtful anyone felt short-changed after the orchestra’s larger-than-life renditions of the better-known Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome under the baton of conductor Lio Kuokman and a ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution music critic Pierre Ruhe joins Fred Child for more on the Atlanta Symphony and Music Director Robert Spano. Then we hear Spano in action, with the ASO and "The Pines of ...

There's a new record by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and it's a beauty. It's a traversal of Ottorino Respighi''s "Roman Trilogy" -- in other words, on one record Respighi's ...

The Plainfield Symphony will present Respighi Festival concert on April 26 at 7:00 pm. The event will take place at the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church at 716 Watchung Ave, Plainfield, NJ, 07060.

For violist Sarah Switzer ’19, the four pieces that the Yale Symphony Orchestra will play Saturday night have a theme in common: a sense of place. At 8:00 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, the YSO will perform ...

Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome” and. Claude Debussy’s masterpiece La Mer. Ottorino Respighi’s great orchestral showpiece “The Pines of Rome” unites nature with the history of Rome, “the ...

The effect was electric. The orchestra was nearing the big finish of Ottorino Respighi’s The Pines of Rome, and the martial strains evoking the glory of ancient Roman armies were already ringing out ...

A whole generation of young composers learned about orchestral color at the feet of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. One of his students was the eager young Italian, Ottorino Respighi. While Respighi was in ...