Marzadori/Chamber Orchestra of New York Ottorino Respighi/Di Vittorio
(Naxos)
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 composer and conductor who has also completed a number of Respighi's unfinished scores. The best known work here is Rossiniana, dating from 1925 and an example of Respighi's postmodern flamboyance at its best.
The disc's raison d'�tre, however, is Di Vittorio's performing version of the Violin Concerto in A, left incomplete in 1903. The influence of Rimsky?Korsakov, Respighi's teacher from 1900 to 1902, is apparent in the Slavonic inflections of the thematic material, but in essence, it's a big, late Romantic concerto, reminiscent of Brahms. Laura Marzadori does some nice things with it ? the ornate slow movement is particularly refined ? though neither she nor Di Vittorio's orchestra are helped by the close, very dry recording. The Aria for Strings and Suite for Strings, both scrupulously played, are attractive early exercises in Respighi's pseudo?baroque style: Di Vittorio has "revised" the suite, though why he should need to do so is something we're not told.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/09/respighi-violin-concerto-in-a-rossiniana-review
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