Respighi, Ottorino - Sinfonia Drammatica / Belfagor (SACD) - Neschling, John

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Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / John Neschling

The Sinfonia drammatica is one of Respighi’s little-known – or rather neglected – works, and tends to be overlooked completely in writings about the composer. The opinion – or rather lack of opinion – expressed by Elsa Respighi, his wife and first biographer, who stated that ‘The Fountains of Rome was the first entirely charac - teristic orchestral work by Respighi’, without saying a word about the important Sinfonia drammatica, has certainly contributed to the lack of interest in the work. If 4 we were to trust Elsa Respighi, we would almost believe that her husband did not achieve musical maturity until he wrote The Fountains of Rome in 1916. This is not the case at all: when Respighi started work on the ambitious Sinfonia drammatica in 1913, he was already an established composer with more than twenty orchestral works as well as an opera to his credit; moreover, he could always count on an actual performance of each new work.