Fountains Of Rome

With the symphonic poem Fontane di Roma Respighi began the so-called 'Roman Trilogy' taking up a wide-spread subject in the fields of literature and music. Since the French harpsichordists waterworks have always been the subject of programmatic music and even the poetry of the 'seicento' already dealt with the Roman fountains. Respighi's setting however is not just an onomatopoeic representation of waterworks. As is explained by Respighi in his specially attached programme the music captures moods and pictures that are generated within the viewer while looking at the fountains.

Arranger: Haan, Stefan de Composer: Seiber, Mátyás Preface: Haan, Stefan de The Dance Suite for alto saxophone and piano is an arrangement of selected pieces from Mátyás Seiber's Easy Dances, originally composed as piano pieces on the popular dance-styles of the 1920s and 30s and focusing particularly on the rhythmic characteristics of each. Seiber's life and work linked and developed many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartók and Kodály, to Schoenberg and Serial Music, to jazz, folksong, film and lighter music (rewarded by an Ivor Novello Prize for 'By The Fountains of Rome'). A late collaboration with John Dankworth produced the 'Improvisations for Jazz Band and Orchestra'. Contenu - Tango 1 - Tango 2 (Habanera) - Waltz - Blues - Charleston - Foxtrot - Cake-Walk

Avec le poème symphonique Fontane di Roma, Respighi a commencé la soi-disant ' Roman trilogie ', reprenant un sujet très répandue dans les domaines de la littérature et la musique. Depuis les clavecinistes français, waterworks ont toujours été le sujet de la musique programmatique et même la poésie de la ' seicento ' déjà traité avec les fontaines romaines. Définition de Respighi, cependant, n'est pas juste une représentation onomatopéique du réseau d'aqueduc. Comme il est expliqué par Respighi dans son programme spécialement ci-jointe, la musique capture les humeurs et les images qui sont générées dans le spectateur en regardant les fontaines. / Grand Orchestre