Seiji Ozawa/ Boston Symphony Orchestra – Respighi: Pines of Rome, Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome

No contemporary Italian was as successful as an instrumental composer in the concert hall in the period after the First World War as Ottorino Respighi with his four-movement symphonic poems “Fountains Of Rome” (1917), “Pines Of Rome” (1924) and “Feste Romane” (1929). In these works, program music experienced a magnificent revival. Particularly noteworthy is Respighi’s art of instrumentation, with which he rivaled orchestral composers such as Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel. He made use of a musical language distilled from many sources, a kind of ‘Euro-Impressionism’ that did not exclude modernist influences.

Deutsche Grammophon’s Original Source Series presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original 4- and 8-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. Released on 180-gram vinyl records with deluxe gatefold jackets with original covers and lyrics, the series is limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.