“Orchestral Blockbuster.” “Stereo Spectacular.” Such were the words used, in the heyday of hi-fi, to push records of the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s so-called “Roman Trilogy” of tone poems: ...

The Plainfield Symphony Orchestra’s concert on April 26 will be “an immersive experience” featuring three works by renowned Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). Under the baton of Maestro ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Mark Pullinger is seduced by Respighi at his most colourful in a 1934 suite culled from a ballet As a sucker for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to ...

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 a big fan of the music that came a few centuries before him, and he often re-tooled the old formulas to fit his music. Jesus Lopez Cobos leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in ...