レスピーギ

名作と知られざる初期作品で聴くレスピーギの世界!

リカルド・シャイリーとスカラ座フィルハーモニー管弦楽団による好評を博しているイタリアの作曲家シリーズ。前作はケルビーニの知られざる作品の魅力を精緻な演奏で聴かせてくれました。

今回はレスピーギの初期の貴重な作品を、古典的な名作「ローマの松」と「ローマの噴水」と組み合わせ厳選したプログラムでお届けします。

スカラ座フィルハーモニー管弦楽団の優れたソリストたちが、ヴァイオリンと管弦楽のための『Leggenda』」や、2つのオーボエと弦楽のための『Di Sera」で精巧なアンサンブルを披露しています。

シャイーの解釈は、官能的なディテールと背筋がゾクゾクするような興奮を並置している - The Guardian
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Ottorino Respighi is often thought of as a four-hit wonder for the so-called Roman Trilogy, plus the Ancient Airs and Dances, orchestral renditions of Renaissance lute pieces, one suite of which is heard here. However, he wrote a good deal of other music, including nine operas that would bear performers exploration. The listener surely has plenty of strong recordings of The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome to choose from, but there are several reasons to pick this 2020 release from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, a group with which Chailly has developed a close relationship. What makes the two tone poems enduringly listenable is their compactness and their quasi-symphonic structure, each with four movements falling into something like the traditional configuration, and with each of the movements unfolding according to an internal logic even as it memorably fills the programmatic bill. Its this balance that Chailly gets: he never overdoes the pictorial aspect, but he delivers plenty of thrills to the listener as The Pines of Rome marches along the Via Appia, or the fountain of the Villa Medici quietly winds down the day. Further, Chailly offers a trio of early Respighi works that may be called rarities. From the first years of the 20th century, these pieces show Respighis melodic gift and the way he began to tailor it to larger structures, which is just the thing that makes the famous tone poems work. A delightful release that lives up to its single-name Respighi title, it gives a sense of the whole composer.