Serenata for Small Orchestra, P. 54

Composer: RESPIGHI, Ottorino
  • Respighi composed his Serenata for small orchestra, P. 54, in 1904.1
  • This is Respighi’s first professional composition “for small orchestra.” Respighi designated a number of his later works “for small orchestra” (per piccolo orchestra), including The Birds (Gli uccelli) and Three Botticelli Pictures (Trittico botticelliano).2
  • This early Respighi work was not published until 2012, in an edition edited by the conductor of this recording.3

Sources

  1. John C.G. Waterhouse, Janet Waterhouse and Potito Pedarra, “Respighi, Ottorino,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 7, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000047335. 
  2.  Salvatore Di Vittorio, liner notes to Respighi: Gli uccelli / Trittico botticelliano / Suite in G Major, Kyler Brown, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore di Vittorio, Naxos 8.573168, CD, 2014. 
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

20138