Crepuscolo Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz

• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Deità Silvane, P. 107:
• 1Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 1, I fauni02:14
• 2Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 2, Musica in horto01:58
• 3Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 3, Egle03:03
• 4Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 4, Acqua02:54
• 5Respighi: Deità Silvane, P. 107: No. 5, Crepuscolo04:22
• 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts):
• 6Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 1, In alto mare01:00
• Contrasto, P. 66:
• 7Respighi: Contrasto, P. 6602:06
• L’ultima ebberezza, P. 8:
• 8Respighi: L’ultima ebberezza, P. 803:23
• 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts):
• 9Respighi: 6 Melodie, P. 89 (Excerpts): No. 2, Abbandono02:03
• Stornellatrice, P. 69:
• 10Respighi: Stornellatrice, P. 6901:40
• 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71:
• 11Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 1, L'udir talvolta01:29
• 12Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 2, Ma come potrei01:48
• 13Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 3, Ballata01:36
• 14Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 4, Bella porta di rubini01:56
• 15Respighi: 5 Canti all'antica, P. 71: No. 5, Canzone nell'opera comica Re Enzo02:49
• Storia breve, P. 52:
• 16Respighi: Storia breve, P. 5202:24
• 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97:
• 17Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 2, P. 97: No. 6, Il giardino04:00
• 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts):
• 18Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 6, Pioggia02:19
• Lagrime, P. 9:
• 19Respighi: Lagrime, P. 903:59
• 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143:
• 20Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 1, When the Kye Come Hame05:14
• 21Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 2, Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town03:30
• 22Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 3, My Heart's in the Highlands03:57
• 23Respighi: 4 Scottish Songs, P. 143: No. 4, The Piper of Dundee02:17
• 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts):
• 24Respighi: 6 Liriche, Series 1, P. 90 (Excerpts): No. 1, O falce di luna02:56
• Notturno in E-Flat Major, P. 11:
• 25Respighi: Notturno in E-Flat Major, P. 1103:39
• Nebbie, P. 64:
• 26Respighi: Nebbie, P. 6402:51
• Total Runtime01:11:27

Info for Crepuscolo

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.

Timothy Fallon, tenor
Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano

Timothy Fallon
is an American tenor who has been hailed by the New York Times as ‘possessing an elegant sense of phrasing and luminous tone with his sure-handed control of timbre, from velvety pianissimos to bright confident high notes’. He devotes time to both operatic and concert stages around the world, where he has collaborated with internationally esteemed orchestras, musicians and conductors. He is the recipient of a 2021 Grammy Award as well as being the 2013 first prize winner of the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. Beginning in the 2022–23 season, he is the house lyric tenor at the Vienna Volksoper in Austria. Mentored among others by the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, Timothy Fallon is a graduate of the Westminster Choir College (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Juilliard School, New York.

Ammiel Bushakevitz
Born in Jerusalem and raised in South Africa, Ammiel Bushakevitz specializes as a Lieder pianist and is a laureate of numerous international art song competitions. He has appeared at festivals including Salzburg, Bayreuth, Lucerne, Shanghai and Aix-en-Provence and at the Leeds International Piano Series. Bushakevitz is one of the last private students of the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and is a graduate of the University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig and the Conservatoire de Paris. His mentors included Phillip Moll, Boris Berman and Alfred Brendel. Ammiel Bushakevitz is a member of the Société des Arts Sciences et Lettres of Paris, an honorary member of the International Richard Wagner Society and an Edison Fellow of the British Library, London. He is artistic director of the Association Internationale Les Voix d’Orphée in Paris.

Booklet for Crepuscolo