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I wouldn't call this obscure haha...it's one of the more well known pieces I think, showed up in fantasia 2000, and I've seen it played lots of times at concerts
I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh? Still, I'm glad you did a video on my all time favourite orchestral work. As someone who lives in Rome, I've always imagined the second movement being about the catacomb of Cecilia Metella, or the catacombs of S. Callisto. That area in the southern part of Rome, which used to be pure countryside, is full of catacombs and lots of pines. It is one of the most romantic places, especially in the evening. The pines in Rome are not just any pine, they are a unique and characteristic type of Mediterranean pine, also known as Italian stone pine. The amount found in Rome does make it part of the characteristic landscape of Rome, without them Rome would look absolutely different. But the third movement is the one that always manages to melt my heart. For this one I don't imagine the Terrazza del Gianicolo proper, where there's the statue of Garibaldi, but the smaller terrace found just after the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, in front of a large baroque fountain. From there you can see the pines on your right, and Rome in all its beauty in front of you.
yes. I live in Rome too but before I moved to Rome I had listened to this piece and thought it was silly to make some epic orchestral works about some trees, but when I had finally moved to Rome I realised that those pines are what makes Rome Rome. huge majestic pines that dot the landscape which creates a sense of epic grandure that Respighi managed to capture so accurately.
"I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh?" - I mean, there's also "It's a me, Mario!" and Fascism.
The mobster accent is based on one of the common ways an Italian accent, particularly a southern Italian accent, presents in English. The other common way it is represented in English is the sing-song form exaggerated in Mario and Luigi’s accent. There is generally not a great way to depict one in English.
@@annekeener4119 However both of those accents are based on southern Italian accents while Respighi was from the North (Emilia). Another option which I believe is more realistic, and still kind of funny for english speakers, is the accent used by Lionfield, Pasta Queen and others. I've chosen them just because they're well-known creators but there are many others. P.S: neither of those accents are an accurate representation of southern Italian accents either. No one speaks english like that here.
Silly stereotypes of a composer's nation are a kind of routine part of this channel. It's about making classical music accessible to a broader audience with humor. Be glad you aren't Swedish (and Sweden has no national composer of note) because I'm sure the Swedish Chef from the Muppets and his goofy accent would be put to good use.
As mentioned, Pines of Rome is notable for its use of recorded nightingale song. How the director, producer, or conductor missed the opportunity to replace it with Humpback whale song - instead cutting the section entirely - is inexcusable.
The ballet by Martha Grahm and Aaron Copland can been asociated with manifest destiny, given that it depicts american settlemnt without any regard or respect for the indigenous people. It also quotes the shaker tune- Simple Gifts- often heard at Thanksgiving- which the natives would protest from the 1970s onwards.
@@TristanMA I don’t think that is what the ballet is about. I believe It’s more or less about simple living and a wedding on a simple farm in Pennsylvania. Simple Gifts is a Shaker hymn, though I don’t hear it a lot during Thanksgiving (come on, we all know Thanksgiving is just the precursor to Christmas)
I requested the Pines of Rome, although I know I'm not alone. The Janiculum Hill segment is surreal and the ending with the lone nightingale resonates with me, like the mockingbird I hear early in the morning. It's a little joy that means so much to me. I hope to listen to this while sitting on a balcony in Rome during the evening someday, watching the twinkling lights of the domes and piazzas until the next dawn. It feels so out of place with the rest of the composition but feels like for one second, all the worries of the world are lifted away.
Omg i’ve been waiting for this episode 🙈i played Pines of Rome last year at the Stellenbosch Chamber Festival. I could not stop listening to it. Thank you so much
Respighi did not write the Pines of Rome for Mussolini or the Fascist regime. He wrote it for his student, Elsa, who later became his wife. After Respighi's death, Elsa did much to preserve his reputation, and eventually restored it by the time of her death.
Thanks for reviewing one of my favorite pieces of music ever(!). Since this year has "Pines of Rome" turn 100, I was wondering if you can do Janacek's "Cunning Little Vixen" since it also turns 100 this year. Thanks again!!
I bet those pine trees will be Easter Eggs in future videos. I love the use of Easter Eggs in your videos. I look for the swan from Carmina Burana every time now.
A favorite from Fantasia 2000 (featuring Flying Humpback Whales), and the first of several works for Earth Day by Rimsky-Korsakov's Italian student (the others being Autumn Poem, Three Botticelli Paintings, and The Birds).
I’m so excited about pines of Rome, this is the one piece I want to learn one day on the glockenspiel! If I got to choose what to perform next in community band or orchestra it is definitely the Pines of Rome. Even if I wasn’t assigned the glockenspiel part, I’ll love to learn the celesta part to this beautiful work. I’m excited to hear it coming up, it is definitely underrated.
Great video as always! Please put Tchaikovsky 6 on your list if it isn't already! Also I just discovered the animation is produced by a studio based where I'm from, and now I'm punching the air in pride 🎉🎉🎉
Love this piece! Nice to get an explanation for each of the movements. I think my favorite is the catacombs because the repeated pattern is almost early rock music. Love the little Asterix and Obelix reference! 😁
I love the comment near the end about how Respighi would influence the composers of 'Sword and Sandal' films as the movement concerning the catacombs sonically reminded me of the score from Ben Hur.
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THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am writing a novel series and the two composers I have on constantly are De Falla and especially Respighi; I'm keen to learn more about him.
I love how you add things from old episodes to the new ones! Here is Rachmaninoff, his wife and sister and the Nietzsche Sun from Also Sprach Zarathustra. Can you please do a episode on Chopin and Liszt, for Liszt, can you do his first piano concerto and for Chopin, please do the Op. 10 and 25 Études.
The 4th movement is another piece in John Williams’ “I used this for a movie” collection - listen to the very beginning of Superman I, where we are going through space to Planet Krypton. Sound familiar, anyone?
Don't forget Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (with its intermezzo), or the Bel Canto Masterworks of Bellini & Donizetti.
I cannot believe the Pines of Rome is meant to be EXACTLY what goes on in my head; I see rowdy schoolkids rumbling their way to school amid pine around a beautiful villa---I always thought I was making up my own visuals...
In January 1926, conductor Arturo Toscanini directed the American premiere in his first concert with the New York Philharmonic. Respighi himself conducted the work with the Philadelphia Orchestra a day after Toscanini's American premiere. Both the original concept and the Disney vision (with Flying Humpback Whales) emphasize a connection to the natural world, adding it to Earth Day’s playlist.
This Nightingale sound in Respighi's Pines of Rome is an exmple of natural sampling. Mechanical sampling was developed by Eric Satie in his Parade (1917), and human sampling would develop under Steve Reich in the 1960s.
The last movement is marked as quarter note at 66 bpm. 105 would be the eighth note. The Cor Anglais solo is usually considered a foreign slave pleading for release.
was that ffranz liszt that picked rhespigi up on the motorbike at the end/ please do beethoven's wellington's victory and lully's marche pour le ceremonie turc!
Pino D'Angiò is definitely my favourite classical Opera composer of all times.!, "Ma quale idea" is way better than "Nessun dorma" or "La donna è mobile".., such a timeless masterpiece..!
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pretty much all roman emperors get assassinated
Thank you for all your efforts! I really apreciate your work. You worth all of the subs in the world!
I still can't stop thinking of humpback whales when I hear Pines of Rome.
Can you do Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and make sure it's a great moment for me.
Or what's more. WHAT ABOUT JANÁČEK'S SINFONIETTA? It's pretty epic.
Thanks for finally accepting my roman trilogy request!
I had the same request too! 😄🥰
Now onto the Fountains! Then Festivals... also Church Windows while were at it.
@@PersonOfTheInternet280 Consider this petition signed!
The Tribute to Asterix and Obelix (English speaker here) really warmed my heart. As much as the whole tribute to Respighi! Thank you.
Loving the Roman Holiday and Asterix reference. And thanks for sharing this obscure work with your audience!
I wouldn't call this obscure haha...it's one of the more well known pieces I think, showed up in fantasia 2000, and I've seen it played lots of times at concerts
@@elmerglue21 With flying Humpback Whales.
Asterix Gang!!! 🎉
I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh? Still, I'm glad you did a video on my all time favourite orchestral work.
As someone who lives in Rome, I've always imagined the second movement being about the catacomb of Cecilia Metella, or the catacombs of S. Callisto. That area in the southern part of Rome, which used to be pure countryside, is full of catacombs and lots of pines. It is one of the most romantic places, especially in the evening.
The pines in Rome are not just any pine, they are a unique and characteristic type of Mediterranean pine, also known as Italian stone pine. The amount found in Rome does make it part of the characteristic landscape of Rome, without them Rome would look absolutely different.
But the third movement is the one that always manages to melt my heart. For this one I don't imagine the Terrazza del Gianicolo proper, where there's the statue of Garibaldi, but the smaller terrace found just after the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, in front of a large baroque fountain. From there you can see the pines on your right, and Rome in all its beauty in front of you.
yes. I live in Rome too but before I moved to Rome I had listened to this piece and thought it was silly to make some epic orchestral works about some trees, but when I had finally moved to Rome I realised that those pines are what makes Rome Rome. huge majestic pines that dot the landscape which creates a sense of epic grandure that Respighi managed to capture so accurately.
"I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh?" - I mean, there's also "It's a me, Mario!" and Fascism.
The mobster accent is based on one of the common ways an Italian accent, particularly a southern Italian accent, presents in English. The other common way it is represented in English is the sing-song form exaggerated in Mario and Luigi’s accent. There is generally not a great way to depict one in English.
@@annekeener4119 However both of those accents are based on southern Italian accents while Respighi was from the North (Emilia). Another option which I believe is more realistic, and still kind of funny for english speakers, is the accent used by Lionfield, Pasta Queen and others. I've chosen them just because they're well-known creators but there are many others.
P.S: neither of those accents are an accurate representation of southern Italian accents either. No one speaks english like that here.
Silly stereotypes of a composer's nation are a kind of routine part of this channel. It's about making classical music accessible to a broader audience with humor. Be glad you aren't Swedish (and Sweden has no national composer of note) because I'm sure the Swedish Chef from the Muppets and his goofy accent would be put to good use.
Those flying whales from Fantasia 2000 deserve FAR MORE RECOGNITION AS WELL AS THE COMPOSER!
Sure it makes no sense, but I do like the flying whales...
Well, I meant that the music Disney has chosen for the flying whales segment, so "the Pines Of Rome", was amazing.
The Fantasia duology in general probably did a lot to shape my appreciation of iconic classical music from a young age, this piece included.
As mentioned, Pines of Rome is notable for its use of recorded nightingale song. How the director, producer, or conductor missed the opportunity to replace it with Humpback whale song - instead cutting the section entirely - is inexcusable.
Oh how it brings me back
Always a great day when a Classics Explained video drops! I hope there is some Bruckner or Mahler story cooking up next!
babe wake up classics explained just posted a pines of roam video
Cant wait for another banger! Also, I think a possible video on The Appalachian Spring would be very cool heh :)
Appalchain Spring belongs to this most dreaded holiday- Thanksgiving- that the natives would later protest against.
It’s not about thanksgiving dude.
The ballet by Martha Grahm and Aaron Copland can been asociated with manifest destiny, given that it depicts american settlemnt without any regard or respect for the indigenous people. It also quotes the shaker tune- Simple Gifts- often heard at Thanksgiving- which the natives would protest from the 1970s onwards.
@@TristanMA I don’t think that is what the ballet is about. I believe It’s more or less about simple living and a wedding on a simple farm in Pennsylvania.
Simple Gifts is a Shaker hymn, though I don’t hear it a lot during Thanksgiving (come on, we all know Thanksgiving is just the precursor to Christmas)
I love learning about music through this channel! It’s so much more fun and very informative. I rlly appreciate it 😊!
One of the best classical music series on youtube
9:14 "Ma quale idea (Pino d'Angiò)"
I love this channel
Balla!
I requested the Pines of Rome, although I know I'm not alone. The Janiculum Hill segment is surreal and the ending with the lone nightingale resonates with me, like the mockingbird I hear early in the morning. It's a little joy that means so much to me. I hope to listen to this while sitting on a balcony in Rome during the evening someday, watching the twinkling lights of the domes and piazzas until the next dawn. It feels so out of place with the rest of the composition but feels like for one second, all the worries of the world are lifted away.
Omg i’ve been waiting for this episode 🙈i played Pines of Rome last year at the Stellenbosch Chamber Festival. I could not stop listening to it. Thank you so much
Respighi did not write the Pines of Rome for Mussolini or the Fascist regime. He wrote it for his student, Elsa, who later became his wife. After Respighi's death, Elsa did much to preserve his reputation, and eventually restored it by the time of her death.
Always an excellent video!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I was at a performance of Pines of Rome, just like with the premiere the standing ovation began before the last note ended it was amazing
Thanks for reviewing one of my favorite pieces of music ever(!). Since this year has "Pines of Rome" turn 100, I was wondering if you can do Janacek's "Cunning Little Vixen" since it also turns 100 this year. Thanks again!!
I did a presentation on Cunning Little Vixen in my Czech Holiday survey as well as a teasor for Pocket Opera's production of the opera.
YES!!!
Love this piece!
Love all the complexities in it
Wow, I'm surprised you did Pines of Rime. But THANK YOU!!!!!!
Love this piece - I just recently played it with me orchestra and I had the English Horn solo of mvmt IV
I bet those pine trees will be Easter Eggs in future videos. I love the use of Easter Eggs in your videos. I look for the swan from Carmina Burana every time now.
Hey. You should definitely do an episode about the Brandenburg Concertos; they are worth knowing.
Pines of Rome saved my life. Thank you for making this animation explaining it :)
Oh yeh, the recorded bird song. .. i always worry about the offstage buccane parts but forget the bird bit
That bird is a Nightingale which Respighi would quote again in his Birds.
When everybody is cheering about Asterix, Obelix, and the Roman Holiday references, I am cheering about Nietzsche Sun's reappearance lol
A favorite from Fantasia 2000 (featuring Flying Humpback Whales), and the first of several works for Earth Day by Rimsky-Korsakov's Italian student (the others being Autumn Poem, Three Botticelli Paintings, and The Birds).
I’m so excited about pines of Rome, this is the one piece I want to learn one day on the glockenspiel! If I got to choose what to perform next in community band or orchestra it is definitely the Pines of Rome. Even if I wasn’t assigned the glockenspiel part, I’ll love to learn the celesta part to this beautiful work. I’m excited to hear it coming up, it is definitely underrated.
I first heard this piece in Fantasia 2000 ❤
Loves the Asterix and Obelix reference ❤
My favorite piece, thanks for covering
I love this trilogy so much thanks for doing pines
Great video as always! Please put Tchaikovsky 6 on your list if it isn't already!
Also I just discovered the animation is produced by a studio based where I'm from, and now I'm punching the air in pride 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much for these amazing videos ❤
My favorite channel fr
Another brilliant achievement. Bravo!
Fantastic video, informative and with a great sense of humour! Thanks - really enjoyed it!😀😀
I'll never hear the words "pine trees" the same way again.
True indeed🤣
Well you see those PINE TREES are everywhere around Rome.🤣
@@teodoragradinaru8572 Mediterranean Stone Pines as they are actually called.
I fell in love with The Pines of Rome when my college band played it for a concert. So many unique moments all throughout!
The "Appian you know it" joke was exceptional
Great video! Pines is such an amazing piece!
For Earth Day!
Love this piece! Nice to get an explanation for each of the movements. I think my favorite is the catacombs because the repeated pattern is almost early rock music.
Love the little Asterix and Obelix reference! 😁
👏👏👏 maravilloso trabajo
here for the hunky pines 🔥
I love the comment near the end about how Respighi would influence the composers of 'Sword and Sandal' films as the movement concerning the catacombs sonically reminded me of the score from Ben Hur.
You forgot to mention Fantasia 2000 with Humpback Whales.
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Thank you for noticing! And watching.
Another masterpiece!
I placed this among the compositions for Earth Day.
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am writing a novel series and the two composers I have on constantly are De Falla and especially Respighi; I'm keen to learn more about him.
If possible, can u plz do the other 2 tone poems in the Roman Trilogy, PLEEEEZ????
I just performed this with my youth orchestra (I had the English Horn solo) :)
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I love how you add things from old episodes to the new ones! Here is Rachmaninoff, his wife and sister and the Nietzsche Sun from Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Can you please do a episode on Chopin and Liszt, for Liszt, can you do his first piano concerto and for Chopin, please do the Op. 10 and 25 Études.
Would you mind putting the Thanks options for those of us who want to support you but unable to do patron ? Your videos are great! 🥰
Bravo!!
Jean Sibelius made another forest work- Tapiola in 1926, but it is much darker.
The 4th movement is another piece in John Williams’ “I used this for a movie” collection - listen to the very beginning of Superman I, where we are going through space to Planet Krypton. Sound familiar, anyone?
Can you make a Video on another Programmatic symphony? Like Beethoven‘s 6th or Schumann‘s 3rd?
"Classics Explained was here" was the funniest thing I saw in the video.
In Fantasia 2000's depiction- the last movement is set to humpback whale migration.
0:02 charlie?!?!
Great video ❤
When's your next episode coming out?
Another noteworthy instrumental Italian composer is Petro Yon who wrote Gesu Bambino, Advent Suite, Shepherds March, etc.
Don't forget Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (with its intermezzo), or the Bel Canto Masterworks of Bellini & Donizetti.
How about Rossini's bel canto masterpieces?
@@alex9920ro He also did the William Tell overture.
@@TristanMA no, there is no episode where he talked about this piece.
I cannot believe the Pines of Rome is meant to be EXACTLY what goes on in my head; I see rowdy schoolkids rumbling their way to school amid pine around a beautiful villa---I always thought I was making up my own visuals...
Please make a video about Gustav Mahler!!!!
Part of the second movement sounds a lot like one of the main themes in Ben Hur. Are they related?
Hehe. Definitely left that comment before the video was done.
In January 1926, conductor Arturo Toscanini directed the American premiere in his first concert with the New York Philharmonic. Respighi himself conducted the work with the Philadelphia Orchestra a day after Toscanini's American premiere. Both the original concept and the Disney vision (with Flying Humpback Whales) emphasize a connection to the natural world, adding it to Earth Day’s playlist.
How about Giazotto's Adagio after a fragment by Albinoni?
Astérix and Obélix cameo ❤❤❤
The Auryn of The Neverending Story
This Nightingale sound in Respighi's Pines of Rome is an exmple of natural sampling. Mechanical sampling was developed by Eric Satie in his Parade (1917), and human sampling would develop under Steve Reich in the 1960s.
Can you talk about the “La Traviata” opera?
Or try Messa da Requiem for a more famous non-operatic work of Verdi.
You should make a episode about Bach’s cello suites
I think it’s episode 24
Thank you - we were getting ahead of ourselves -
. Can you do Tosca it will be another banger
@@quintorezwalker5210 Vatican Disaster! Try Puccini's Turandot for a happier ending, despite the suicide of Liu.
@@quintorezwalker5210 no...please...just no!
@@alex9920ro Yes my friend Yes
This is epic
Tchaikovsky nutcracker next please!!!
Babe new classic explained dropped don't wake up though I'm gonna watch it myself
The last movement is marked as quarter note at 66 bpm. 105 would be the eighth note. The Cor Anglais solo is usually considered a foreign slave pleading for release.
I had to play timpani on the 4th movement. I have never been so frustrated.
Yes
Does the thumbnail show... an oboe with the fingering system of a Boehm clarinet?
Anatol Lyadov also wrote three Tone poems- Baba Yaga, The Enchanted Lake, & Kikimora (all suited for a Halloween Playlist).
It’ll be awesome if you make a episode of Romanian Rhapsody 1/2 by George Enescu :3
Can you do the resurrection symphony by G. Mahler
The 100th anniversary of Pines of Rome 🎉
was that ffranz liszt that picked rhespigi up on the motorbike at the end/ please do beethoven's wellington's victory and lully's marche pour le ceremonie turc!
Again, with the Appion Way I saw a host of great beasts on migration, which concluded a chapter I was having trouble with.
Brahms Requiem would be nice?
I recommend to you Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s,Othello suite great music. And his works need recognition.
3rd movement of the Pines is solely responsible for creating a vast portion of my novel
Both Respighi and Glazunov died in 1936.
Let's get weird!! Second Viennese School time baby!!
“THE PINE TREES🥹”
Such a beautiful piece! 😍 And to think, I thought it was about flying humpback whales, lol. 😆 😉
6:48 is that Messiaen Lmao?
The Fantasía 2000 Blue WHALE piece, which is given very short shrift
Pino D'Angiò is definitely my favourite classical Opera composer of all times.!, "Ma quale idea" is way better than "Nessun dorma" or "La donna è mobile".., such a timeless masterpiece..!
@classicsexplained I think you should do English folk song suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Try The Lark Ascending or Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Please Roman festivals as well!
It would be great if you make episodes on Rossini's The Barber of Seville and William Tell 🥰
Do William Tell Overture next