A musical march through the history of Rome - Ep 24 Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi 

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Thanks for finally accepting my roman trilogy request!

Those flying whales from Fantasia 2000 deserve FAR MORE RECOGNITION AS WELL AS THE COMPOSER!

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.

The Tribute to Asterix and Obelix (English speaker here) really warmed my heart. As much as the whole tribute to Respighi! Thank you.

Loving the Roman Holiday and Asterix reference. And thanks for sharing this obscure work with your audience!

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.

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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).

Always a great day when a Classics Explained video drops! I hope there is some Bruckner or Mahler story cooking up next!

9:14 "Ma quale idea (Pino d'Angiò)" I love this channel

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 :)

I love learning about music through this channel! It’s so much more fun and very informative. I rlly appreciate it 😊!

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.

I first heard this piece in Fantasia 2000 ❤ Loves the Asterix and Obelix reference ❤

Wow, I'm surprised you did Pines of Rime. But THANK YOU!!!!!!

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 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.

Hey. You should definitely do an episode about the Brandenburg Concertos; they are worth knowing.

Always an excellent video!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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.

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 🎉🎉🎉

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!!

Oh yeh, the recorded bird song. .. i always worry about the offstage buccane parts but forget the bird bit

The "Appian you know it" joke was exceptional

I'll never hear the words "pine trees" the same way again.

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here for the hunky pines 🔥

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.

Love this piece! Nice to get an explanation for each of the movements. I think my favorite is the catacombs because the repeated pattern is almost early rock music. Love the little 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!

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YES!!! Love this piece! Love all the complexities in it

I love this trilogy so much thanks for doing pines

When everybody is cheering about Asterix, Obelix, and the Roman Holiday references, I am cheering about Nietzsche Sun's reappearance lol

My favorite piece, thanks for covering

I pray and bless this channel with increasing resources to produce in bigger and better ways! Thank you for your work, your passion is evident, and makes it so easy to dive into your videos when we know you’re giving it love 💪🏼❤️‍🔥😎 I keep your noti’s turned ON

Thank you so much for these amazing videos ❤

Would you mind putting the Thanks options for those of us who want to support you but unable to do patron ? Your videos are great! 🥰

Astérix and Obélix cameo ❤❤❤

Fantastic video, informative and with a great sense of humour! Thanks - really enjoyed it!😀😀

I recommend to you Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s,Othello suite great music. And his works need recognition.

Another brilliant achievement. Bravo!

I just performed this with my youth orchestra (I had the English Horn solo) :)

The Fantasía 2000 Blue WHALE piece, which is given very short shrift

"Classics Explained was here" was the funniest thing I saw in the video.

It’ll be awesome if you make a episode of Romanian Rhapsody by George Enescu :3

Great video! Pines is such an amazing piece!

Another noteworthy instrumental Italian composer is Petro Yon who wrote Gesu Bambino, Advent Suite, Shepherds March, etc.

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 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.

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@classicsexplained I think you should do English folk song suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Another masterpiece!

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.

The Auryn of The Neverending Story

You should make a episode about Bach’s cello suites

It would be great if you make episodes on Rossini's The Barber of Seville and William Tell 🥰

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.

Respighi's Best Symphonic Poem ( Ton poem) but Catacomb is realy a Little Bit Spooky Maybe Respighi is = Italiano Pizza

Tchaikovsky nutcracker next please!!!

Please make a video about Gustav Mahler!!!!

Bravo!!

How about Giazotto's Adagio after a fragment by Albinoni?

“THE PINE TREES🥹”

Peak symphonic writing, the roman trilogy might be the most overlooked works in classical music.

was that ffranz liszt that picked rhespigi up on the motorbike at the end/ please do beethoven's wellington's victory and lully's marche pour le ceremonie turc!

Let's get weird!! Second Viennese School time baby!!

Would please cover Puccini's Turandot! I want to hear Nessun Dorma.

Such a beautiful piece! 😍 And to think, I thought it was about flying humpback whales, lol. 😆 😉

Can you talk about the “La Traviata” opera?

Jean Sibelius made another forest work- Tapiola in 1926, but it is much darker.

Yes

In Fantasia 2000's depiction- the last movement is set to humpback whale migration.

pines of rome my beloved

Brahms Requiem would be nice?

I think it’s episode 24

Great video ❤

When's your next episode coming out?

This is epic

Can you do the resurrection symphony by G. Mahler

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.

The 100th anniversary of Pines of Rome 🎉

0:02 charlie?!?!

Please Roman festivals as well!

Thank you Friar Skeltal doot doot

Sooooo...why is Madeline and her friends in this?

Can you make a Video on another Programmatic symphony? Like Beethoven‘s 6th or Schumann‘s 3rd?

Do William Tell Overture next

The Final triumph is reminiscent of that in Stavinsky's The Firebird.

Does the thumbnail show... an oboe with the fingering system of a Boehm clarinet?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO SHOSTAKOVICH 8TH QUARTET

Thre was another bird piece in art music before Pines of Rome in 20hth Century- Ralph Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending.

so... PINE TREES!!!!

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.

An example of “biomusic” predating Einojuhani Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, and Alan Hovhaness “And God Created Great Whales”.

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.

Both Respighi and Glazunov died in 1936.

Part of the second movement sounds a lot like one of the main themes in Ben Hur. Are they related?