Ian Bostridge – Respighi: Songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Flord impressionism and folk songs. After their acclaimed recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini present a programme of rarely-recorded songs by Ottorino Respighi. This selection of songs demonstrates Respighi’s stylistic versatility and broad literary inspiration, from settings of Ada Negri’s compact verses to florid, Symbolist d’Annunzio poems as well as folk melodies, including Scottish songs. Respighi’s Liriche unveil a fascinating, little-known Italian branch of musical Impressionism. What binds them together is a longing for a past still so close, but at the same time inevitably gone.

Tracklist:

1-1. Ian Bostridge – No. 1, I fauni (01:55)
1-2. Ian Bostridge – No. 2, Musica in horto (01:53)
1-3. Ian Bostridge – No. 3, Egle (03:05)
1-4. Ian Bostridge – No. 4, Acqua (02:37)
1-5. Ian Bostridge – No. 5, Crepuscolo (04:02)
1-6. Ian Bostridge – No. 1, O falce di luna (02:38)
1-7. Ian Bostridge – No. 3, Au milieu du jardin (02:02)
1-8. Ian Bostridge – No. 6, Pioggia (02:00)
1-9. Ian Bostridge – No. 1, Notte (03:10)
1-10. Ian Bostridge – No. 3, Le repos en Égypte (03:49)
1-11. Ian Bostridge – No. 4, Noël ancien (03:00)
1-12. Ian Bostridge – Nebbie, P. 64 (02:50)
1-13. Ian Bostridge – La statua, P. 122 (03:11)
1-14. Ian Bostridge – No. 2, La naiade (03:10)
1-15. Ian Bostridge – No. 3, La sera (04:02)
1-16. Saskia Giorgini – No. 3, Notturno (05:29)
1-17. Ian Bostridge – No. 4, Bella porta di rubini (01:42)
1-18. Ian Bostridge – Stornellatrice, P. 69 (01:29)
1-19. Ian Bostridge – No. 1, When the Kye Come Hame (03:07)
1-20. Ian Bostridge – No. 2, Within a Mile of Edinburgh (03:51)
1-21. Ian Bostridge – No. 3, My Heart’s in the Highlands (03:02)
1-22. Ian Bostridge – No. 4, The Piper of Dundee (02:15)
1-23. Ian Bostridge – Canzone sarda, P. 155 (02:00)
1-24. Ian Bostridge – Le funtanelle, P. 164 (Canzone dell’abruzzo) (01:01)