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[email protected] www.naxos.com • www.NaxosMusicGroup.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2019 8.574013 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 62:13 7 47313 40137 6 © Guerin Blask JoAnn Falletta Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879–1936) About JoAnn Falletta JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Roman Trilogy Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and is the principal Roman Festivals • Fountains of Rome guest conductor of the Brevard Music Center of North Carolina. She Pines of Rome served as principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 2011 to 2014, with whom she made her debut at the BBC Proms in London. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta Recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, Falletta became the first female conductor to lead a major Respighi is renowned as the composer of the lavishly orchestrated American ensemble upon her appointment as music director of the Roman Trilogy, sumptuous tone-poems full of provocative harmonies Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999. Her Naxos recordings and suggestive rhythms, which celebrate the city’s architectural include the double GRAMMY® Award-winning disc of works by John marvels, its festivals, pines and fountains. The composer’s Corigliano and GRAMMY®-nominated discs of works by Tyberg, kaleidoscopic writing encapsulates romantic serenade and rustic Dohnányi, Fuchs, Schubert, Respighi, Gershwin, Corigliano, Richard dance, solemn melody and pastoral landscape, children at play and Strauss, Hailstork and Holst.