Cat No. JM73137
Price £42.50
Composer: O. Respighi
Arranger: Howard Snell
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music

This new version published in September 2015 includes :

1. The Pines of the Villa Borghese
2. March - The Pines of the Appian Way.

Foreword

Ottorino Respighi composed his Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma) in 1924 as the second part of a Roman trilogy. Fountains of Rome preceded it and Roman Festivals followed it. A complete version of Roman Festivals is also available in an arrangement l made for a commission by the National Youth Band of Great Britain.
This edition consists of two movements of Pines of Rome, the 1st and 4th. The complete Pines of Rome scored for Brass Band is also available.

Each of the four movements is based in four different Roman landscapes in Rome where pine trees dominate the landscape.

The 1st Movement, Pines of the Villa Borghese, draws a vivid, brilliant picture of children playing their games under pine trees, lively and noisy in the sunshine.
The 4th Movement, Pines of the Appian Way, offers the starkest possible contrast, of a misty Appian Way in the early morning, the military road leading into Rome from the South. Among the Pines that shelter the road we see the Roman Army marching towards Rome, its leader assured of "A Triumph," that ultimate accolade awarded only 300 times or so, as far as is known, during the Roman Empire of more than 1,000 years. As the sun rises we see the heroes in all their splendour as they march with blaring brass (buccine), in full ceremonial purple and gold, to be received on the Capitoline Hill by the Senate and the people of Rome.

This arrangement of Pines of Rome has been recorded by the Britannia Building Society Band (Foden’s Band) conducted by Howard Snell for Doyen Recordings.

Now including both the composer’s organ part and the arranger’s original seating plan for which the arrangement was conceived, this version has been revised in 2015. Both the organ part and the seating plan are optional. The arrangement can also be performed with reduced percussion at the discretion of the conductor.

Howard Snell
2015