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Pines of Rome (Italian: Pini di Roma), P 141, is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. It is the second of his three tone poems about Rome , following Fontane di Roma (1916) and preceding Feste Romane (1928).
A canon-like motif is regarded as the third theme. [1] The music returns to excerpt 1, preceding a piano cadenza. The cadenza that starts quietly gradually culminates from a recapitulation of excerpt 2 to the climax. The movement calmly ends with excerpt 1 echoed by orchestra accompanied with the sound of bells rung on piano. [1]
The third and youngest child of Giuseppe and Ersilia (née Putti) Respighi, he had a middle class upbringing with his sister Amelia; his brother Alberto died at age nine. [3] Giuseppe, a postal worker, was an accomplished pianist who studied the instrument with Stefano Golinelli and taught music at the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna . [ 4 ]
Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome (1924) calls for a phonograph recording of birdsong to be played during the third movement. [ 12 ] Pierre Schaeffer and Studio d'Essai
The orchestration calls for an average-sized orchestra of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in A/B♭, 2 bassoons, 3 horns in D (doubling 2 horns in E/F), 2 trumpets in A/D (doubling trumpet in C), 3 trombones, 3 timpani, celesta, harpsichord 4-hands, harp and strings.
In Western art music, recordings of bird songs have been used in numerous works. One of the first is Pines of Rome (1924) by Ottorino Respighi – the third movement includes the sound of a nightingale recorded onto a phonograph, played in the concert hall during the movement's ending. This use of recording technology was something that had ...
Piano quintet (3rd movement) Gerry Mulligan: Utter Chaos Francis Poulenc Villageoises (Petites Pièces enfantines) Ottorino Respighi Pines of Rome (mvmts 1) I pini di Villa Borghese Schubert Im Frühling 7 Dec 1996 Malcolm Bradbury: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 (1st mvt – Allegro) Leonard Bernstein The best of all possible worlds (from Candide)
Roman Festivals (Italian: Feste Romane), P 157 is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1928 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. [1] It is the last of his three tone poems about Rome, following Fountains of Rome (1916) and Pines of Rome (1924), which he referred to as a triptych. [2]