Respighi's Rome
Respighi's popular showpieces provoke virtuoso playing in a spectacular recording (headline)...Delos offers a triumph. The sound has a sensuously velvety, wrap-around quality that is both warmly atmospheric and finely detailed, helped by a sharp terracing of textures to make the sound both immediate and vividly realistic. ...the Fountains of Rome, with its gentle opening...the clean separation of the recorded sound immediately conveys a fine sense of presence...DePreist, over the years since he became music director of the Oregon orchestra in 1980, has built it into a virtuoso band more than able to hold its own in any international company, presenting these showpieces with just the sort of panache that they need. --Gramophone Magazine