This album is both by and for Respighi fanatics. It features the Chamber Orchestra of New York Ottorino Respighi, founded to promote his music in 2006 by Salvatore di Vittorio, a Sicilian-born ...

Ottorino Respighi picked out some lute pieces from the Renaissance and arranged them for orchestra to prove that it was possible to write interesting music in the 1930's. We'll enjoy his Third Suite ...

Ottorino Respighi wasn’t a native of Rome, but he got there as quickly as he could.

Composed over the course of 12 tumultuous years – from Italy’s disastrous participation in the First World War (1915-6) to the consolidation of Mussolini’s regime (1928) - the Roman Trilogy shows the ...

Ottorino Respighi was notoriously obsessed with other composers' works, and well over half the music on this disc consists of adaptations or orchestrations. In Rossiniana (1926), Respighi pays homage ...

Impressioni brasiliane, 'Brazilian Impressions' Rome Symphony Orchestra Ottorino Respighi, Composer Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor Trittico botticelliano, 'Botticelli Pictures' Rome Symphony ...

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, ...

Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, 'Ancient Airs and Ottorino Respighi, Composer Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor Rome Symphony Orchestra Rossiniana Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor Rome Symphony ...