PINES OF ROME - Finale Part 4 - "I pinna della Via Appia" (Pines of the Appian Way)

Part 4 of the dramatic visualization of Ottorino Respighi's 'Pini di Roma'.
In this final movement Respighi recalls the past glories of the Roman empire in a representation of dawn on the great military road leading into Rome.
It portrays pine trees along the Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) in the misty dawn, as a triumphant legion advances along the road in the brilliance of the newly-rising sun.
Respighi wanted the ground to tremble under the footsteps of his army and he instructs the organ to play bottom B♭ on the 8′, 16′ and 32′ organ pedals.
The score calls for six buccine – ancient circular trumpets that are usually represented by modern flugelhorns, and which are sometimes partially played offstage.
Trumpets peal and the consular army rises in triumph to the Capitoline Hill.

Performed by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Johannes Fritzsch.