Since you are interested in Respighi: Piano Music (Including Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Yoav Talmi [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] "This account has plenty of fire and imagination" (ClassicsToday) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
The Best Of Berlioz (Includes Royal Hunt And Storm; March To The Scaffold & Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 ) Rivka Golani (viola), Igor Gruppman (violin) San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Master Chorale, Polish State Phi [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] Way ahead of his time, misunderstood, and a rebel. It is difficult to believe, as we hail Beethoven's achievements, that the great German composer had only been dead three years when Berlioz wrote the erotic Symphonie Fantastique. |
RESPIGHI
Vetrate di chiesa / Impressioni Brasiliane / Rossiniana Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Brilliance from Buffalo in Respighi's rich orchestration.". - Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine Feb 2008 |
BERLIOZ
Damnation de Faust (complete) Michael Myers (Tenor) / Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Mezzo-soprano) / Alain Vernhes (Baritone) / Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "The cast is a good one, the orchestra idiomatic and Jean-Claude Casadesus, who has made his mark on disc before, is at the helm." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
BERLIOZ
L'Enfance du Christ Op 25 (Complete oratorio) Michele Lagrange ; Orchestre National de Lille-Region Nord ; Choeur Regional Vittoria de l'Ille de France ; Jean-Claude Casadesus, conductor [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 at La Cote-St-Andre in the departement of Isere, the eldest son of a doctor of some local distinction. |
RESPIGHI
Suite in E major & other orchestral works Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Listening to the early orchestral works of Respighi all recorded here for the first time, one would never suppose the composer to have been Italian. They belong to the earlier period of Respighi's career, before the water-shed of his development,... |