Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Crepuscolo (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Crepuscolo is the final song in Ottorino Respighi’s song cycle Deità silvane (‘woodland deities’), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as atonality, spiky neoclassicism and futurism flourished. In reaction to these developments, Respighi in 1932 famously signed a manifesto calling for music with a ‘human content’ – something which his songs certainly live up to: as Elsa Respighi, the composer’s wife, once said it was to his songs that he ‘entrusts his heart’s hidden secrets, when he lets his soul sing freely.’

From L’ultima ebbrezza, composed when Respighi was only 17 years old, to the Four Scottish Songs from 1924, the songs recorded here attest to the variety of his musical interests, influences and styles, and are at turns lyrically operatic, expressionist, impressionist or symbolist. Respighi’s love of the Renaissance is also manifest in the Cinque canti all’antica, settings of poets including Boccaccio. Timothy Fallon and Ammiel Bushakevitz have previously released a Liszt recital described as ‘superb’ in Gramophone. They have now devised a varied programme which takes in three complete groups as well as a selection of individual songs, including Respighi’s most popular songs (Nebbie, Stornellatrice) as well as less well known ones.

Tracklist:
01. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 1, I fauni (02:20)
02. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 2, Musica in horto (02:03)
03. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 3, Egle (03:10)
04. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 4, Acqua (02:57)
05. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 5, Crepuscolo (04:30)
06. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 1, In alto mare (01:05)
07. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Contrasto, P. 66 (02:09)
08. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: L’ultima ebberezza, P. 8 (03:25)
09. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 2, Abbandono (02:06)
10. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Stornellatrice, P. 69 (01:47)
11. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 5 Canti all’antica, P. 71: No. 1, L’udir talvolta (01:31)
12. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 5 Canti all’antica, P. 71: No. 2, Ma come potrei (01:53)
13. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 5 Canti all’antica, P. 71: No. 3, Ballata (01:39)
14. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 5 Canti all’antica, P. 71: No. 4, Bella porta di rubini (02:00)
15. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 5 Canti all’antica, P. 71: No. 5, Canzone nell’opera comica Re Enzo (02:55)
16. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Storia breve, P. 52 (02:29)
17. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6, Il giardino (04:04)
18. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 6, Pioggia (02:23)
19. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Lagrime, P. 9 (04:05)
20. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 1, When the Kye Come Hame (05:15)
21. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 2, Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town (03:34)
22. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 3, My Heart’s in the Highlands (04:01)
23. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 4, The Piper of Dundee (02:23)
24. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 1, O falce di luna (03:00)
25. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Notturno in E-Flat Major, P. 11 (03:46)
26. Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Respighi: Nebbie, P. 64 (03:02)