Respighi: Pines of Rome - Columbia Orchestra

The Columbia Orchestra (https://www.columbiaorchestra.org), an all-volunteer community orchestra in Howard County, Maryland, performed this concert live March 26, 2022 at the Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia, MD.

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
The Pines of Rome

Columbia Orchestra
Jason Love, conductor

Introduction to the work (0:00)
I. The Pines of the Villa Borghese (4:00)
II. Pines Near a Catacomb (6:52)
III. The Pines of the Janiculum (13:27)
IV. The Pines of the Appian Way (19:51)
Applause (24:46)

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Respighi's description:

The Pines of the Villa Borghese (Allegretto vivace): "Children are at play in the pine groves of the Villa Borghese. They dance round in circles, they play at soldiers, marching and fighting. They are wrought up by their own cries like swallows at evening, they come and go in swarms. Suddenly the scene changes, and..."

Pines Near a Catacomb (Lento): "We see the shades of the pine-trees fringing the entrance to a catacomb. From the depths rises the sound of mournful psalm-singing, floating through the air like a solemn hymn, and gradually and mysteriously dispersing."

The Pines of the Janiculum (Lento): "A quiver runs through the air: the pine-trees of the Janiculum stand distinctly outlined in the clear light of a full moon. A nightingale is singing."

The Pines of the Appian Way (Tempo di Marcia): "Misty dawn on the Appian Way. Solitary pine-trees guard the magic landscape; the muffled, ceaseless rhythm of unending footsteps. The poet has a fantastic vision of bygone glories: trumpets sound and, in the brilliance of the newly-risen sun, a consular army bursts forth towards the Sacred Way mounting in triumph to the Capitol."