The Birds / Three Botticelli Pictures

Album by Ottorino Respighi & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

The Birds / Three Botticelli Pictures is an album of orchestral works by Ottorino Respighi, composed in 1928 and 1927 respectively. The two short suites employ vivid orchestral colour and pastiche of earlier musical forms to evoke avian sounds and Renaissance imagery, reflecting Respighi's interest in tone poems and his mature focus on colourful orchestration and pictorial effect.

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  1. 1.
    The Birds: I. Prelude (after Pasquini)
    3:06
  2. 2.
    The Birds: II. The Dove (after De Gallot)
    4:27
  3. 3.
    The Birds: III. The Hen (after Rameau)
    2:44
  4. 4.
    The Birds: IV. The Nightingale (after anon. English)
    4:44
  5. 5.
    The Birds: V. The Cuckoo (after Pasquini)
    4:14
  6. 6.
    Three Botticelli Pictures: I. Spring
    5:40
  7. 7.
    Three Botticelli Pictures: II. The Adoration of the Magi
    8:45
  8. 8.
    Three Botticelli Pictures: III. The Birth of Venus
    4:32

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