Ottorino Respighi - Liriche da Camera (Marta Moretto; Aldo Orvieto)

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Composer: Ottorino Respighi

• 4 Liriche, P. 125
• La donna del sarcofago, P. 121
• La statua, P. 122
• Il tramonto, P. 101
• 5 Liriche, P. 108
• 4 Liriche su parole di poeti armeni, P. 132

Marta Moretto, mezzo-soprano

Aldo Orvieto, piano

Date: 2007

Label: Stradivarius

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Ottorino Respighi (9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. He studied at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and also studied briefly with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).

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Marta Moretto is an Italian lyric mezzo-soprano from Padua and a graduate of the Conservatorio "Cesare Pollini". She debuted in 1990 as Maddalena in Rigoletto in Mexico City and went on to perform extensively across Europe, including roles in Cavalleria rusticana, Madama Butterfly, Il trovatore, Un ballo in maschera, Nabucco, and Lohengrin. She sang Amneris in Aïda during the 2001 Verdi Centennial and made her German debut as Carmen in 2003. Moretto has also performed in Seoul, Monte-Carlo, and Rome under Riccardo Muti. In 1993, she recorded Adriana Lecouvreur alongside Magda Olivero.

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Aldo Orvieto (born 1961 in Padua) is an Italian pianist and scholar. A graduate of the Venice Conservatory, he studied under Aldo Ciccolini and has recorded extensively, with over 90 albums focusing on 20th-century music for labels like Naxos and ASV. He has performed with major orchestras and ensembles, such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and Ensemble 2e2m, and co-founded the Ex Novo Ensemble in 1979. Known for premiering works by contemporary composers, he has won the Abbiati Prize (2019) and the Isang Yun Prize (2020). Orvieto has also published several musicological essays.

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