Respighi - Pines of Rome / Remastered 2023 L/R (Ct.rec.: Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

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Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Pini di Roma by Fritz Reiner
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00:00 Pines of Rome - I. Pines of the Villa Borghese
02:42 Pines of Rome - II. Pines near a Catacomb
09:27 Pines of Rome - III. Pines of the Janiculum
15:56 Pines of Rome - IV. Pines of the Appian Way

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Recorded in 1959, at Chicago
New mastering in 2023 by AB for CMRR
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In 2021, we published this legendary recording with a quality already superior to the major editions, but the stereo of our source was inverted (R/L instead of L/R). The challenge was to keep the same sound quality and even improve on it, but with a Left/Right signal. Mission accomplished, enjoy.

In the Pines of Rome Respighi tried, he tells us, to express a feeling for the "principal events of Roman life," that is, for the Rome he knew himself. In the Fountains of Rome he wished rather more directly and descriptively to express the feelings four of them aroused in him. These fountains, mostly baroque and mostly by Bernini, are inseparable from the memory of anybody who has lived, loved or struggled in Rome.

The Villa Borghese, on top of the Pincian Hill (Monte Pincio), has been national property for a long time, and its wonderful park and gardens are the favorite resort of Romans of every condition. It used to be a great promenade in the late afternoon for the aristocracy, in the days of carriages, but there never was a time when the poorest of the poor did not also resort there for the cool air, the exquisite view and the redolence of the pines.

The Roman campagna, too, has its pines, not so much in thick groves as in clumps, or solitary, or in orderly rows by the side of the road. In this Roman countryside, beside one of the catacombs, Respighi found the pines of his meditation, in which a prayer half heard arises from the earth, the prayer of the early Christians who worshipped there in secret.

On the Janiculum hill, with its thick groves, its palaces and gardens, moonlight and the nightingale enfold the pines in the mysterious night. The composer is directly descriptive here, and it is not difficult to see a thicket on the upper reaches of that beautiful hill as we listen. From this dream of the Janiculum we are led directly into the Appian Way, to the marching feet of the legions beneath the pines, the glory that was Rome.

Fritz Reiner was internationally recognized as one of the foremost conductors of his time. Born in 1888 in Budapest, he received his musical education at the Academy of Music there. At the age of 23 he became conductor of the Budapest Volksoper and two years later was given the coveted post of principal conductor of the Dresden Opera; while there he worked with Richard Strauss on productions of his early operas and conducted the premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten. In 1922 Reiner became conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; nine years later he went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to head the orchestral department. After a decade (1938-48) as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he joined the Metropolitan Opera. Then in 1953 he became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he built into one of the world's great ensembles. Ill health forced him to resign his post in 1962, and he died the following year.

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