Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite – Respighi: Pini di Roma (Live) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons

• Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932): Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31):
• 1Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): I. Introduction [Live]01:25
• 2Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): II. Dance [Live]02:19
• 3Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): III. Intermezzo I [Live]00:59
• 4Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): IV. Changing of the Guard [Live]01:56
• 5Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): V. Carmen's Entrance & Habanera [Live]03:18
• 6Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): VI. Scene [Live]06:53
• 7Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): VII. Intermezzo II [Live]01:58
• 8Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): VIII. Boléro [Live]01:18
• 9Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): IX. Torero [Live]03:22
• 10Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): X. Torero und Carmen [Live]04:10
• 11Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): XI. Adagio [Live]05:29
• 12Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): XII. Fortune Telling [Live]04:40
• 13Carmen Suite (After Bizet's WD 31): XIII. Finale [Live]06:25
• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Pini di Roma, P. 141:
• 14Pini di Roma, P. 141: I. I pini di Villa Borghese (Live)03:00
• 15Pini di Roma, P. 141: II. Pini presso una catacomba (Live)06:22
• 16Pini di Roma, P. 141: III. I pini del Gianicolo (Live)06:47
• 17Pini di Roma, P. 141: IV. I pini della Via Appia (Live)05:25
• Total Runtime01:05:46

Info for Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite – Respighi: Pini di Roma (Live)

This new recording from BR-KLASSIK features the ballet music 'Carmen Suite', based on the famous melodies from George Bizet's eponymous opera and masterfully arranged and adapted by the composer Rodion Shchedrin in 1968, and Ottorino Respighi's well-known symphonic poem 'Pini di Roma' (The Pines of Rome), written in 1924. The name of the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin is primarily associated in the West with his 'Carmen Suite', which has been highly popular ever since its first performance. The thirteen movements of this ballet music are based on Bizet's opera Carmen, and carefully adapted to the musical language of the present day. After Shchedrin's wife Maya Plisetskaya, long-time prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, had vainly asked both Shostakovich and Khachaturian to compose a Carmen ballet especially for her, her husband decided to do so instead – a decision that was rewarded with international success. The rousing music in Shchedrin's interpretation sounds very familiar, yet in many ways, entirely new! The Italian composer Ottorino Respighi is especially admired for his masterly instrumentation. The symphonic poems in his 'Roman Trilogy', which deal with the fountains, pine trees and festivals of his adopted home city of Rome, made his name immortal. In his 'Pines of Rome' he describes four locations in the Eternal City, each with a different historical background.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor

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