MKO x Enrico Onofri I Ottorino Respighi, Antiche Danze ed arie per liuto: Suite Nr. 3

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Sensational writing for strings-Respighi really created something wondrous i this suite. The playing is superb and the whole thing a marvel. Thanks. :-)

[@anonymusum]

Komme gerade von einem Konzert eines New Yorker Kammerorchesters auf YT und freue mich hier über die im Vergleich hervorragende Intonation.

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Respighi knew much about what we might call 'early music'. His translations of sets of dances are extraordinary. No need to an actual lute ere-would not be heard anyway. :-)

[@bernardgendre4118]

L'orchestre....l'éxécution....et la direction, quelle élégance.

[@muenchenerkammerorchester]

Merci beaucoup!

[@odinthor13]

¿Dónde está el laúd?

[@muenchenerkammerorchester]

Good question! "Antiche danze ed arie" is a set of three orchestral suites, freely transcribed from original pieces for lute from the 16th and 17th century. The subtitle of the piece is actually "Trascrizione libera per orchestra".

[@borisbrinkmann]

It is freely arranged in the style of Respighi's time which means late-romantic. Although Respighi was seriously interested in exploring Ancient music, it was not common in his time and the knowledge in "historical informed performance practice" not so advanced that instruments like a lute would have been added to a late-romantic orchestra. To us it's rather a romantic piece than a Renaissance, and I as a conductor would rather feel in service of Respighi's aesthetic idiom than that of his sources.