Respighi Pines of Rome, Festivals, Fountains of Rome: Ozawa: Original Source

Respighi Pines of Rome, Festivals, Fountains of Rome: Ozawa Reissued as Part of the Original Source Series on 180g 2LP from Deutsche Grammophon: Pure Analogue Mix, Cut from the Original Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios, Pressed at Optimal

No contemporary Italian was as successful as an instrumental composer in the concert hall in the period after the First World War as Ottorino Respighi with his four-movement symphonic poems ‘Fountains of Rome’ (1917), ‘Pines of Rome’ (1924) and ‘Feste Romane’ (1929). In these works, programme music experienced a magnificent revival. Particularly noteworthy is Respighi's art of instrumentation, with which he rivaled orchestral composers such as Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel. He made use of a musical language distilled from many sources, a kind of ‘Euro Impressionism’ that did not exclude modernist influences.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.