Pini di Roma

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Tempietto di Minerva of Villa Borghese
The Ianiculum
Via Appia south of Porta San Sebastiano (Rome)

Pini di Roma , dt. ' Pine trees of Rome ', is a symphonic poem in four movements by Ottorino Respighi from 1924. Together with Fontane di Roma (dt. 'Fountain of Rome') and Feste Romane (dt. Römische Feste ') the Roman trilogy , which is one of the most famous legacies of the composer. The work was premiered on December 14, 1924 at the Teatro Augusteo in Rome by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Bernardino Molinari .

Sentences and programmatics

The work consists of four movements :

  • I pini di Villa Borghese (The pine trees of Villa Borghese)
  • Pini presso una catacomba (pine trees near a catacomb)
  • I pini del Gianicolo (The pine trees on the Ianiculum)
  • I pini della Via Appia (The pine trees of the Via Appia)

The composer preceded the score with the following program :

"I. The pine trees of Villa Borghese. The children play among the pine trees at Villa Borghese . They dance rows of rings , perform military marches and battles and get intoxicated by their own screams like swallows in the evening; then they run away. The scene changes unexpectedly ...

II. Pine trees near a catacomb. In the shade of the pine trees around the entrance to a catacomb , from whose depths a wistful song comes to us. It rises to a solemn hymn and then fades away again.

III. The pine trees on the Janiculum. A tremor goes through the air: on a clear night with a full moon, its tops gently rock the pine trees of the Janiculum . A nightingale is singing in the branches.

IV. The pine trees of the Via Appia. Morning mist over the Via Appia : lonely pine trees stand watch in the tragic landscape of the Roman Campagna. Indistinct, but again and again, you think you can hear the rhythm of countless steps. The poet sees age-old fame revive in the spirit: under the bellows of the Buccines, a consul and his army approaches to march in the gleam of the new sun to the Via Sacra and to triumph on the Capitol. "

occupation

The recording of the nightingale chirping prescribed in the score.

3 flutes (3rd also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (in A and B), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns (in F and E), 3 trumpets in B, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba , 6 bucins in B flat (2 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass, usually played by bow horns), timpani, percussion with bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, tam-tam, triangle, ratchet, tambourine, glockenspiel, organ, piano, celesta, harp , Strings and sound recording with nightingale singing

Use in film

A shortened version of the work without the second movement was used in the animated film Fantasia 2000 to accompany frolicking humpback whales.

literature

  • Alfred Beaujean: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome). Symphonic poetry. In: Wulf Konold (Ed.): Lexicon Orchestermusik Romantik. Volume 2: I – R (= Series Musik Piper / Schott. 8227). Schott, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8227-9 , pp. 650-652.
  • Rudolf Kloiber : Handbook of Symphonic Poetry. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1967, pp. 220-223.

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Remarks

  1. This is where the original nightingale song is used: Respighi asks for record No. 6105 from Deutsche Grammophon, "Il canto dell'usignolo".