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, the copies of this series are released limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Tracklisting:
LP 1
Side A
Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141
1. I. I pini di Villa Borghese
2. II. Pini presso una catacomba
3. III. I pini del Gianicolo
4. IV. I pini della Via Appia
Side B
Respighi: Roman Festivals, P. 157
1. I. Circenses
2. II. Il Giubileo
3. III. L'Ottobrata
4. IV. La Befana
LP 2
Side C
Respighi: Fountains of Rome, P. 106
3. I. The Valle Giulia Fountain at Dawn
4. II. The Triton Fountain in the Morning
5. III. The Trevi Fountain at Midday
6. IV. The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset