Respighi: Transcriptions: of Bach and Rachmaninov

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In the five Études-Tableaux by Rachmaninov, Respighi’s alchemy lends coloristic allure and an amplified sense of atmosphere to the piano originals. Rachmaninov found the results ‘amazing’, and... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 5th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2350
Label: BIS
Length: 58 minutes

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Respighi: Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV532, PP158

Work length10:10

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
John Neschling

I. Prelude

Track length4:39

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II. Fugue

Track length5:31

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Respighi: Passacaglia in do minore di Giovanni Sebastiano Bach

Work length15:24

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
John Neschling

Passacaglia

Track length8:44

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Fugue

Track length6:40

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Respighi: Tre Corali

Work length10:40

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
John Neschling

No. 1, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (After J.S. Bach's BWV 659)

Track length4:06

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No. 2, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (After J.S. Bach's BWV 648)

Track length1:08

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No. 3, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (After J.S. Bach's BWV 645)

Track length5:26

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Respighi: Rachmaninov 5 etudes-tableaux (orch. Respighi) P. 160

Work length22:36

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
John Neschling

No. 1, La mer et les mouttes (After Rachmaninoff's Op. 39 No. 2)

Track length7:19

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No. 2, La foire (After Rachmaninoff's Op. 33 No. 4)

Track length2:05

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No. 3, Marche funèbre (After Rachmaninoff's Op. 39 No. 7)

Track length6:13

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No. 4, Le chaperon rouge et le loup (After Rachmaninoff's Op. 39 No. 6)

Track length3:12

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No. 5, Marche (After Rachmaninoff's Op. 39 No. 9)

Track length3:47

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The success of Ottorino Respighi’s ‘Roman Trilogy’ brought the composer international fame as an outstanding orchestrator. One side effect of this are the orchestral transcriptions gathered on this album: all made in 1929-30 and commissioned by eminent conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Serge Koussevitzky for their American orchestras. Respighi’s wide-ranging musical tastes included an interest in early music which probably contributed to him taking on the task of transcribing organ works by Bach – or creating ‘orchestral interpretations’, as he himself called the results. Among the Bach works are the celebrated Passacaglia in C minor – which Stokowski had orchestrated just a few years earlier – as well as the Prelude and Fugue in D major. Both are given the full treatment by Respighi, with orchestral forces including strings, triple woodwind, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and piano four hands for the Prelude and Fugue. The score for the Passacaglia asks for even greater forces (including an organ); Respighi compared Bach’s original to ‘a cathedral built exclusively of sound’ – a description equally valid for his own arrangement. With the present album, l’Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and John Neschling bring us the fifth instalment in a series that has been called ‘the finest-ever survey of the composer’s orchestral output undertaken by a single conductor’ (BBC Music Magazine).

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May 2021

In the five Études-Tableaux by Rachmaninov, Respighi’s alchemy lends coloristic allure and an amplified sense of atmosphere to the piano originals. Rachmaninov found the results ‘amazing’, and BIS’s vivid recorded sound adds an extra tingle factor.

May 2021

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