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  • Sara Mingardo has just won the prestigious Premio Abbiati 2010 as “best Italian singer”. Here she wonderfully interprets some lyrical pieces by Ottorino Respighi with Aldo Orvieto at the piano. These works date from the phase of the Maestro’s development between 1869 and 1914, and as such are often underestimated by critics and audiences. But here they are able to demonstrate all their intrinsic value as pieces that anticipate Respighi’s successful creative period. The first nine pieces are very short, with lyrics by Ada Negri and Carlo Zangarini. In addition, “Pietà ti prenda, mio Dio”, a transcription for voice, violin and piano from Passione secondo San Matteo by J. S. Bach (paraphrase of Salmo 51), with Carlo Lazari at the violin, and the monumental “La sensitiva” (from the poem of Percy Bysshe Shelley), in Respighi’s version for alto and piano.


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