A musical march through the history of Rome - Ep 24 Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
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- Most visitors to Rome can't help but be inspired by the city's unique personality and history. Very few are so inspired they knock out a series of orchestral tone poems, but that's exactly what Ottorino Respighi did after moving there in 1913. This episode explores the meaning behind the second and most famous of these tone poems: Pines of Rome. A series of musical snapshots that take you on a journey through Rome's fascinating history, and still the cheapest way of visiting it without buying a plane ticket, or time machine.
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Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Work: Pines of Rome
Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Year: 2006 (recorded 1960)
Label: RCA
Catalogue No. G010000694744F
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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! 😄🥰
The Tribute to Asterix and Obelix (English speaker here) really warmed my heart. As much as the whole tribute to Respighi! Thank you.
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.
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.
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!!! 🎉
babe wake up classics explained just posted a pines of roam video
YES!!!
Love this piece!
Love all the complexities in it
Always a great day when a Classics Explained video drops! I hope there is some Bruckner or Mahler story cooking up next!
I'll never hear the words "pine trees" the same way again.
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.
I love learning about music through this channel! It’s so much more fun and very informative. I rlly appreciate it 😊!
When everybody is cheering about Asterix, Obelix, and the Roman Holiday references, I am cheering about Nietzsche Sun's reappearance lol
9:14 "Ma quale idea (Pino d'Angiò)"
I love this channel
Hey. You should definitely do an episode about the Brandenburg Concertos; they are worth knowing.
"Classics Explained was here" was the funniest thing I saw in the video.
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.
One of the best classical music series on youtube
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)
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 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.
Fantastic video, informative and with a great sense of humour! Thanks - really enjoyed it!😀😀
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
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.
Another brilliant achievement. Bravo!
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I first heard this piece in Fantasia 2000 ❤
Loves the Asterix and Obelix reference ❤
I fell in love with The Pines of Rome when my college band played it for a concert. So many unique moments all throughout!
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 just performed this with my youth orchestra (I had the English Horn solo) :)
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 🎉🎉🎉
here for the hunky pines 🔥
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.
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.
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.
My favorite piece, thanks for covering
Thank you so much for these amazing videos ❤
Your second Italian Art Music survey for Earth Day after Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
“THE PINE TREES🥹”
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.
Thre was another bird piece in art music before Pines of Rome in 20hth Century- Ralph Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending.
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?
The 100th anniversary of Pines of Rome 🎉
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Thank you for noticing! And watching.
Another masterpiece!
I placed this among the compositions for Earth Day.
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.
Bravo!!
Great video! Pines is such an amazing piece!
For Earth Day!
It would be great if you make episodes on Rossini's The Barber of Seville and William Tell 🥰
Babe new classic explained dropped don't wake up though I'm gonna watch it myself
Great video ❤
Jean Sibelius made another forest work- Tapiola in 1926, but it is much darker.
It’ll be awesome if you make a video of Romanian Rhapsody by George Enescu :3
This is epic
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.
Yes
There was one more famous Italian work after the works of Respighi. In 1958, Remo Giazotto composed the iconic Adagio for Strings and Organ in G Minor, based on a fragment by Tomaso Albinoni.
Tchaikovsky nutcracker next please!!!
In Fantasia 2000's depiction- the last movement is set to humpback whale migration.
Such a beautiful piece! 😍 And to think, I thought it was about flying humpback whales, lol. 😆 😉
Guys, I think there’s some PINE TREES in there.
Peak symphonic writing, the roman trilogy might be the most overlooked works in classical music.
pines of rome my beloved
Please make a video about Gustav Mahler!!!!
Do William Tell Overture next
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?
@@alex9920iasi He also did the William Tell overture.
@@TristanMA no, there is no episode where he talked about this piece.
Both Respighi and Glazunov died in 1936.
The Final triumph is reminiscent of that in Stavinsky's The Firebird.
so... PINE TREES!!!!
Thank you Friar Skeltal
doot doot
Can you make a Video on another Programmatic symphony? Like Beethoven‘s 6th or Schumann‘s 3rd?
Please Roman festivals as well!
Sooooo...why is Madeline and her friends in this?
An example of “biomusic” predating Einojuhani Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, and Alan Hovhaness “And God Created Great Whales”.
Brahms Requiem would be nice?
I was going to comment that those weren't pine trees, but I looked it up and Mediterranean pines really look like that. Despite the name, they're nothing like our American pines.
Shostakovich 5 next? Pls….
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.
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!
@@alex9920iasi Yes my friend Yes
Magen David
Does the thumbnail show... an oboe with the fingering system of a Boehm clarinet?
Pines are different
It was likely Rimsky-Korsakov’s example of incorporating Russian folk-music into his own works that inspired Respighi to seek to create a new Italian sound not seen outside opera since the death of Antonio Vivaldi.
Anybody else oddly attracted to the treeman or is it just me?
Nope, not just you.
@@lkj974 I'm ok with that.
0:02 charlie?!?!
PINE TREES
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I. AM. STILL. WAITING. FOR. BRANDENBURG. CONCERTOS. SINCE. EPISODE. 13
Respighi and Elsa were not facists and did not join the facist regime, unlike most composers of their time.
The Fantasia 2000 segment starts with a supernova and gulls, and then introduces the humpback whale family. During the Janiculum section, the whale calf, with the help of his family, finds his way out of the ice cavern. During the Via Appia section, the whale pod migrates towards a new surface with a final breach and splash.
Respighi made a dark piece called Dance of the Gnomes in 1919.
The Western Roman Empire ended in 476 with the capture of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer of the Ostrogoths. The Eastern (Byzantine) Empire continued until the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century.
ok but where's the flying whales?
Fantasia 2000.
Respighi died aged 55, in 1936. Elsa survived her husband by more than 45 years with an undiminished devotion to her memories of both the man and his scores.
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seriously, i enjoy watching from this channel
Next natural subject in art music history should be Smetana's The Moldau.
Bro doesn't know a pine from a beech
Not all pine trees have the same shape!
Not all Roman triumphs are linked to the Republic. Some come from the Empire's golden period (from Augustus to Constantine), and even during the Western Empire's decline. The Eastern (aka Byzantine) Empire would last until Islamic conquests (like the Seljuik Invasion), Foruth Crusade (sacking of Canstantinople in 1204), through to The Ottoman conquest in 1453.
Stereotype much?
Ottorino is not a good actor.