LAUDA PER LA NATIVITA DEL SIGNORE' Highlights

The Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is best known for his large-scale orchestral tone poems collectively known as his ‘Roman Trilogy’. In the late 1920s he decided to concentrate on producing music for smaller ensembles. Between 1928 and 1930 wrote his only sacred choral work – Lauda per la Natività del Signore (Laud to the Nativity) – which celebrates the miracle of Christmas. The work is scored for three soloists, a mixed chorus and an unusual chamber ensemble of ‘pastoral instruments’ (comprising two flutes, oboe, cor anglais and two bassoons) and piano (four hands).

Respighi had a life-long fascination with music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras and many of his works, including the Lauda, cleverly fuse 20th century harmonic language with elements of earlier Italian music. With its simple lyricism and wonderful clarity, the Lauda is a charming work with a touching, quiet joyfulness. Here the opening and closing sections of the Lauda have been arranged for wind quintet.

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