Soloist: Visentin, Alessandra

Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of New York

Conductor: Di Vittorio, Salvatore

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Composer: Respighi, Ottorino

Il tramonto (The Sunset), P. 101 (version for voice and string orchestra)

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Date of Concert: 04-2022

Playing Time: 00:16:29

Catalogue Number: NVF1478

UPC: 730099647816

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Il tramonto is scored for strings, and was also written in 1914 for the mezzo-soprano Chiarina Fino-Savio. The poem is based on the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and deals with a young woman's tragic story of passionate love and eventual despair over her lover's death. The work is very reminiscent of the music of Richard Wagner, and his Siegfried Idyll in particular, completed prior to the evolution of Respighi's compositional style away from selected
German influences.