Ancient Airs and Dances / Trittico Botticelliano

Album by Ottorino Respighi & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Jesús López Cobos

Ancient Airs and Dances and the Trittico Botticelliano are orchestral works by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, composed between 1917 and 1927. The pieces draw on early music and Renaissance visual art respectively, employing rich orchestral colour, modal harmonies and transparent textures to evoke antiquarian atmospheres, and they represent Respighi's mature interest in orchestrational tone colour and historical sources within his career.

Ancient Airs and Dances / Trittico Botticelliano by Respighi - album cover

First released: 1992

Classical

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Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 1: I. Simone Molinaro: Balletto detto "Il conte Orlando"
2:52
2.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 1: II. Vincenzo Galilei: Gagliarda
3:36
3.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 1: III. Anon.: Villanella
4:37
4.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 1: IV. Anon.: Passo mezzo e Mascherada
3:40
5.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 2: I. Fabrizio Caroso: Laura soave, Balletto con gagliarda
3:55
6.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 2: II. Jean-Baptiste Besard: Danza rustiga
3:54
7.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 2: III. Anon.: Campanæ parisienses / Marin: Mersenne: Aria
5:42
8.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 2: IV. Bernardo Gianoncelli, detto il Bernardello: Bergamasca
5:10
9.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 3: I. Anon.: Italiana
3:10
10.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 3: II. Jean-Baptiste Besard: Arie di corte
6:54
11.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 3: III. Anon.: Siciliana
3:30
12.
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 3: IV. Lodovico Roncalli: Passacaglia
3:04
13.
Trittico Botticelliano: I. La primavera: Allegro vivace
5:30
14.
Trittico Botticelliano: II. L'adorazione dei Magi: Andante lento
8:00
15.
Trittico Botticelliano: III. La nascita di Venere: Allegro moderato
4:41