Ottorino Respighi - Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows) (1926)
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- Ottorino Respighi (9 July 1879 - 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist who was one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, and chamber music, and include transcriptions of pieces from Italian composers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries and works of Bach and Rachmaninoff. Among his best known and most performed works are his three Roman tone poems, which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). All three demonstrate Respighi's use of rich orchestral colours.
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Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows), 4 impressions for orchestra, P. 150 (1926)
1. La fuga in Egitto (0:00)
2.San Michele Arcangelo (6:46)
3. Il mattuttino di Santa Chiara (12:57)
4. S. Gregorio Magno (18:25)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jesús López-Cobos
Description by Roy Brewer [-]
Subtitled "Four Impressions," this work evokes in resplendent orchestration and with great dramatic power various religious events depicted in the stained glass windows of Italian churches. "The Flight into Egypt" depicts the caravan containing the Christ child; "St. Michael Archangel" is shown driving rebellious angels out of heaven with a flaming sword; "The Matin of St. Claire" is inspired by the legend of a thirteenth century saint transported miraculously to a little Italian church to take part in the Matin service; "St. Gregory the Great" portrays Pope Gregory (590-604) blessing the congregation at a ceremonial service.
These are no mere guidebook illustrations, and the work cannot in any strict sense be called program music. In fact the music was originally adapted from a three-part piano suite called Preludes on Gregorian Themes, written with no pictorial intent whatever. They were named by Respighi's wife and friends at a dinner when they heard him play the pieces for the first time and made up titles for them. After the church windows idea took hold, Respighi orchestrated them and added a fourth movement. But of course orchestration is everything with Respighi, and the score has the feeling of transparency and subtle coloration appropriate to its title. It becomes as evocative as The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome.
"The Flight to Egypt" has a reverent, modal feeling, and St. Michael sets on the naughty angels with exemplary vigor. "The Matin of St. Claire" is, perhaps, the most evocative of the set -- a tender pastorale with finely touched-in woodwind tints. In "St. Gregory the Great," Respighi unleashes his full orchestral forces, including an organ, to convey the pomp and grandeur of the papal setting. The splendor is almost visible. Bells of various pitches sound through the orchestra, and the wide difference in compass between lowest pedal notes of the organ and the high brasses contribute to the grandest of grand finales.
Publisher info:
Milan: G. Ricordi, 1927. Plate P.R. 816.
Copyright:
Public Domain - Non-PD US
You can't really go wrong with Respighi if you want fine, lush, powerfully orchestrated tone poems.
I wish that Respighi were better known and appreciated. His gift for melody and composition are supreme. His music is so evocative of whatever subject that he’s portraying in notes and sound that you can see the pictures in your mind. Respighi is in a category all by himself.🎵
yes! i re discovered him thanks to Leon Krier
Conchamar, have you listened to Respighi’s lesser known works such as “The Birds”, “Church Windows”, “Ancient Airs and Dances Suites 1 and 2” and “Adagio Con Varrietzion” for cello and orchestra? As much as I love “The Pines of Rome” and “Fountains of Rome” I love these pieces equally. Rimsky-Kosakov, Respighi and Ravel are considered to be the greatest of all orchestrators in all of the history of classical music. What’s interesting is that both Respighi and Ravel studied orchestration from Rimsky. His ideas must’ve made a profound impact on these two students. If you listen to the music written by all three men each has their own unique style and yet the way they orchestrated their music you can almost immediately tell that they understand the same special musical language that no other composers, not even the likes of Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schubert et al have managed to learn.🎵
Respighi, l'un des plus grands symphonistes de l'histoire de la musique signe avec cette suite, une vision évocatrice et saisissante de ce que racontent ces vitraux. Du grand art.
Une interprétation fort séduisante et une belle présence de l'orgue.
Merci à Bartje Bartmans pour ce bon choix.
The orchestration of Respighi îs so rich, it îs a wonderful work. Thank you very much for the score
Ottorino Respighi:Templomablakok
1. La fuga in Egitto (Menekülés Egyiptomba, Molto lento) 00:00
2. San Michele Arcangelo (Szent Mihály arkangyal, Allegro tempestoso) 06:46
3. Il Mattutino di Santa Chiara (Szent Klára matutinuma, Lento) 12:57
4. San Gregorio Magno (Nagy Szent Gergely, Lento) 18:25
Cincinnati Szimfonikus Zenekar
Vezényel:Jesús López-Cobos
Muchas gracias
Igen !!!
Im came for 6:46
D'une poésie admirable. À travers la rose du vitrail quelle beauté l'on pressent dès l'entrée grâce au mode ecclésiastique... que la musique nous donne à voir avec une sorte de grandeur et de sérénité ensorcelantes !
- I can see coloured Gothic glasses throught this music...
Many, many thanks for uploading this! I've wanted to peruse the score for years. This may very well be my favorite Respighi piece. As far as I'm concerned, he had few equals in orchestration. Thanks again! Keep doing this! There are those of us out who *really* appreciate all your efforts!
+Scott Thomson And I am one of them (one of many, I am sure)
HI Scott! Look up IMSLP.org
Without doubt, along with Berlioz, one of the greatest orchestrators of all time!
from 21:48 to 22:53 tempo 18/8...What a mastery! Immeasurably beautiful.
That thunderous entrance of the full plenum and tutti on the organ at 22:54 just had me in pure disbelief. It’s as if the powers of God himself spoke in the most earthmoving and grandiose fashion!!Absolutely sublime!
Exactly.....BRAVO from Mexico City!
I'll never forget playing this with the Catholic University orchestra in St. Matthews Cathedral in DC. Unbelievable experience.
Thank you very much for the score. The orchestration of Respighi is wonderful.
Wonderful !!!
Progrockers Emerson, Lake & Palmer always used to end their concerts in the 70's with this music from 27:04
9:22 for hebron low brass 🤩
the comment I was looking for
Thanks brother ☝️
Or Carolina Crown 2009
incredible!
6:46 - 7:30 Hebron Penstriped Intro 😎
part 3 of allen’s lux aeterna too 🤷
The ending of the final movement is like the Second Coming.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer used the last two pages as their final curtain call at the end of their concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992.
im trying to figure out the counting at 26:05 and I can't wrap my head around it
it sounds real cool though
also kudos to that bass trombone player
when I first listened to this months ago I thought that was an entire ensemble of trombones, it blows my mind how just a single well-practiced trombone (and tuba lol) can come out over an entire orchestra playing at full blast
It's doubled though; is that instrument in the staff above another trombone or a trumpet?
from what I understand, the bass trombone and tuba part are written on the same part. so I guess I was a bit off - it was the bass trombone and tuba. still really impressive though!
Organ: + A-- + A +-- +.
Half the orchestra is playing a triplet pattern for 2 beats which becomes an eighth note pattern for 2 beats, while the other half does the opposite at the same time, then every 2 measures the halves switch. It's super complicated and not really important so long as it comes out as a wash of sounds echoing and imitating each other. It's great.
What is the double staff abbreviated A. for?
+KC Sutherland Arpa, Italian for Harp
Ah, thank you.
Arpa
Where the hell is the fortissimo organ pedal at 27:48? I think I will stick with Ormandy.
15:04 - 15:28
9:20
1:47
12:12
Texas band kids watching this video because of Hebron 🔥
I’m from SC but 100% why I’m here lmao
more like all band kids
6:46
Piccolo trumpet solo...
I would have given those scalar runs at the beginning to the harp instead of the clarinet.
nah
That would make the texture more interesting, good idea
That's not an appropriate use for the harp... long monophonic solos are not what harps are good at. You couldn't control the phrase properly, the crescendo and diminuendo would be very hard to convey and since you can't control sustain on the harp it would become quite blurry. If anything, the harp could double the clarinet.
SpaghettiToaster maybe as more of a glissando sweep, but I think the clarinet is far better suited for that section tbh?
I think you should write your own piece
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