Crepuscolo Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz

• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Deità Silvane, P. 107:
• 1 Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 1, I fauni 02:14
• 2 Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 2, Musica in horto 01:58
• 3 Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 3, Egle 03:03
• 4 Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 4, Acqua 02:54
• 5 Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 5, Crepuscolo 04:22
• 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts):
• 6 Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 1, In alto mare 01:00
• Contrasto, P. 66:
• 7 Respighi: Contrasto, P. 66 02:06
• L’ultima ebberezza, P. 8:
• 8 Respighi: L’ultima ebberezza, P. 8 03:23
• 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts):
• 9 Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 2, Abbandono 02:03
• Stornellatrice, P. 69:
• 10 Respighi: Stornellatrice, P. 69 01:40
• 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71:
• 11 Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 1, L'udir talvolta 01:29
• 12 Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 2, Ma come potrei 01:48
• 13 Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 3, Ballata 01:36
• 14 Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 4, Bella porta di rubini 01:56
• 15 Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 5, Canzone nell'opera comica Re Enzo 02:49
• Storia breve, P. 52:
• 16 Respighi: Storia breve, P. 52 02:24
• 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97:
• 17 Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6, Il giardino 04:00
• 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts):
• 18 Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 6, Pioggia 02:19
• Lagrime, P. 9:
• 19 Respighi: Lagrime, P. 9 03:59
• 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143:
• 20 Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 1, When the Kye Come Hame 05:14
• 21 Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 2, Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town 03:30
• 22 Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 3, My Heart's in the Highlands 03:57
• 23 Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 4, The Piper of Dundee 02:17
• 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts):
• 24 Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 1, O falce di luna 02:56
• Notturno in E-Flat Major, P. 11:
• 25 Respighi: Notturno in E-Flat Major, P. 11 03:39
• Nebbie, P. 64:
• 26 Respighi: Nebbie, P. 64 02:51
• Total Runtime 01:11:27

Info for Crepuscolo

Crepuscolo is the final song in Ottorino Respighi’s song cycle Deità silvane (‘woodland deities’), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as atonality, spiky neoclassicism and futurism flourished. In reaction to these developments, Respighi in 1932 famously signed a manifesto calling for music with a ‘human content’ – something which his songs certainly live up to: as Elsa Respighi, the composer’s wife, once said it was to his songs that he ‘entrusts his heart’s hidden secrets, when he lets his soul sing freely.’

From L’ultima ebbrezza, composed when Respighi was only 17 years old, to the Four Scottish Songs from 1924, the songs recorded here attest to the variety of his musical interests, influences and styles, and are at turns lyrically operatic, expressionist, impressionist or symbolist. Respighi’s love of the Renaissance is also manifest in the Cinque canti all’antica, settings of poets including Boccaccio. Timothy Fallon and Ammiel Bushakevitz have previously released a Liszt recital described as ‘superb’ in Gramophone. They have now devised a varied programme which takes in three complete groups as well as a selection of individual songs, including Respighi’s most popular songs (Nebbie, Stornellatrice) as well as less well known ones.

Timothy Fallon, tenor
Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano

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