Cat No. JM32537
Price £42.50
Composer: O. Respighi
Arranger: Howard Snell
Categories: Howard Snell Music, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC

This purchase includes two movements from THE PINES of ROME

1. PINES OF the villa borghese
2. MARCH : THE PINES of the APPIAN WAY

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Howard Snell writes :
Misty dawn on the Appian Way: solitary pine trees guarding the magic landscape; the muffled, ceaseless rhythm of unending footsteps. Trumpets sound and, in the brilliance of the newly-risen sun, Roman legions march forth along the Sacred Way, mounting in triumph to the Capitol.


Ottorino Respighi( 1879 - 1936) was a composer of flamboyant orchestral scores much copied by Hollywood. A master of orchestration he employed virtually every musical device known at the time in his rich tone pictures. His inspirations came from many sources and in Pines of Rome (written in 1924) he evokes atmospheres created by the great avenues of pine trees found in various places around the Eternal city. In this final movement Respighi transports us back to the days of ancient Rome. It is dawn and in the distance we hear the tramping feet of a battalion of Roman soldiers returning from a triumphant campaign, and as they draw closer they lift their enormous carved trumpets (buccini) in a blazing victorious fanfare. Duration 5.02