Monday, January 14, 2013
Ottorino Respighi - Notturno
Lovely piece I first heard a few nights ago, appropriately about 3 a.m. Some versions are performed over one minute shorter & I enjoy those also. But slower sounds more a "musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson