Artist: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Album: Respighi: Transcriptions of Bach & Rachmaninoff
Genre: Classical
Year: 2021
Label: BIS
Tracks: 12
Duration: 00:58:52
Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Size: 936 MB
Tracklist:
1. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – I. Prelude (00:04:39)
10. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 3, Marche funèbre (After Rachmaninoff’s Op. 39 No. 7) (00:06:13)
11. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 4, Le chaperon rouge et le loup (After Rachmaninoff’s Op. 39 No. 6) (00:03:12)
12. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 5, Marche (After Rachmaninoff’s Op. 39 No. 9) (00:03:47)
2. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – II. Fugue (00:05:31)
3. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – Passacaglia (00:08:44)
4. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – Fugue (00:06:40)
5. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 1, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 659) (00:04:06)
6. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 2, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 648) (00:01:08)
7. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 3, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 645) (00:05:26)
8. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 1, La mer et les mouttes (After Rachmaninoff’s Op. 39 No. 2) (00:07:19)
9. Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – No. 2, La foire (After Rachmaninoff’s Op. 33 No. 4) (00:02:05)
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The Passacaglia was a success for Toscanini in New York, possibly influencing Koussevitsky in Boston to place a commission of his own. For him and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Respighi transcribed five of Rachmaninov’s Études-tableaux for solo piano. Although these are programmatic pieces, their subject matter had not been disclosed in the editions for piano, but the Russian composer revealed his inspiration to Respighi in order to help him ‘find the appropriate colours’.
With the present album, l’Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and John Neschling bring us the fifth instalment in a series that has been called ‘the finest-ever survey of the composer’s orchestral output undertaken by a single conductor’ (BBC Music Magazine).