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As mentioned, Pines of Rome is notable for its use of recorded nightingale song. How the director, producer, or conductor missed the opportunity to replace it with Humpback whale song - instead cutting the section entirely - is inexcusable.
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.
yes. I live in Rome too but before I moved to Rome I had listened to this piece and thought it was silly to make some epic orchestral works about some trees, but when I had finally moved to Rome I realised that those pines are what makes Rome Rome. huge majestic pines that dot the landscape which creates a sense of epic grandure that Respighi managed to capture so accurately.
"I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh?" - I mean, there's also "It's a me, Mario!" and Fascism.
I wouldn't call this obscure haha...it's one of the more well known pieces I think, showed up in fantasia 2000, and I've seen it played lots of times at concerts
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.
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.
The ballet by Martha Grahm and Aaron Copland can been asociated with manifest destiny, given that it depicts american settlemnt without any regard or respect for the indigenous people. It also quotes the shaker tune- Simple Gifts- often heard at Thanksgiving- which the natives would protest from the 1970s onwards.
@@TristanMA I don’t think that is what the ballet is about. I believe It’s more or less about simple living and a wedding on a simple farm in Pennsylvania. Simple Gifts is a Shaker hymn, though I don’t hear it a lot during Thanksgiving (come on, we all know Thanksgiving is just the precursor to Christmas)
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).
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
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!!
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.
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 🎉🎉🎉
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.
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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! 😁
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am writing a novel series and the two composers I have on constantly are De Falla and especially Respighi; I'm keen to learn more about him.
I cannot believe the Pines of Rome is meant to be EXACTLY what goes on in my head; I see rowdy schoolkids rumbling their way to school amid pine around a beautiful villa---I always thought I was making up my own visuals...
I love how you add things from old episodes to the new ones! Here is Rachmaninoff, his wife and sister and the Nietzsche Sun from Also Sprach Zarathustra. Can you please do a episode on Chopin and Liszt, for Liszt, can you do his first piano concerto and for Chopin, please do the Op. 10 and 25 Études.
Pino D'Angiò is definitely my favourite classical Opera composer of all times.!, "Ma quale idea" is way better than "Nessun dorma" or "La donna è mobile".., such a timeless masterpiece..!
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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!
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.
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pretty much all roman emperors get assassinated
Thank you for all your efforts! I really apreciate your work. You worth all of the subs in the world!
I still can't stop thinking of humpback whales when I hear Pines of Rome.
Can you do Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and make sure it's a great moment for me.
Or what's more. WHAT ABOUT JANÁČEK'S SINFONIETTA? It's pretty epic.
Thanks for finally accepting my roman trilogy request!
I had the same request too! 😄🥰
Now onto the Fountains! Then Festivals... also Church Windows while were at it.
@@PersonOfTheInternet280 Consider this petition signed!
The Tribute to Asterix and Obelix (English speaker here) really warmed my heart. As much as the whole tribute to Respighi! Thank you.
Those flying whales from Fantasia 2000 deserve FAR MORE RECOGNITION AS WELL AS THE COMPOSER!
Sure it makes no sense, but I do like the flying whales...
Well, I meant that the music Disney has chosen for the flying whales segment, so "the Pines Of Rome", was amazing.
The Fantasia duology in general probably did a lot to shape my appreciation of iconic classical music from a young age, this piece included.
As mentioned, Pines of Rome is notable for its use of recorded nightingale song. How the director, producer, or conductor missed the opportunity to replace it with Humpback whale song - instead cutting the section entirely - is inexcusable.
Those whales and pines of Rome are my childhood! 🐳🐋🌲
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.
yes. I live in Rome too but before I moved to Rome I had listened to this piece and thought it was silly to make some epic orchestral works about some trees, but when I had finally moved to Rome I realised that those pines are what makes Rome Rome. huge majestic pines that dot the landscape which creates a sense of epic grandure that Respighi managed to capture so accurately.
"I guess foreign depictions of us Italians will never get rid of that odious mobster accent, uh?" - I mean, there's also "It's a me, Mario!" and Fascism.
Loving the Roman Holiday and Asterix reference. And thanks for sharing this obscure work with your audience!
I wouldn't call this obscure haha...it's one of the more well known pieces I think, showed up in fantasia 2000, and I've seen it played lots of times at concerts
@@elmerglue21 With flying Humpback Whales.
Asterix Gang!!! 🎉
babe wake up classics explained just posted a pines of roam video
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.
Always a great day when a Classics Explained video drops! I hope there is some Bruckner or Mahler story cooking up next!
One of the best classical music series on youtube
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.
Cant wait for another banger! Also, I think a possible video on The Appalachian Spring would be very cool heh :)
Appalchain Spring belongs to this most dreaded holiday- Thanksgiving- that the natives would later protest against.
It’s not about thanksgiving dude.
The ballet by Martha Grahm and Aaron Copland can been asociated with manifest destiny, given that it depicts american settlemnt without any regard or respect for the indigenous people. It also quotes the shaker tune- Simple Gifts- often heard at Thanksgiving- which the natives would protest from the 1970s onwards.
@@TristanMA I don’t think that is what the ballet is about. I believe It’s more or less about simple living and a wedding on a simple farm in Pennsylvania.
Simple Gifts is a Shaker hymn, though I don’t hear it a lot during Thanksgiving (come on, we all know Thanksgiving is just the precursor to Christmas)
9:14 "Ma quale idea (Pino d'Angiò)"
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Balla!
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).
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
Pines of Rome saved my life. Thank you for making this animation explaining it :)
Always an excellent video!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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!!!!!!
Love this piece - I just recently played it with me orchestra and I had the English Horn solo of mvmt IV
When everybody is cheering about Asterix, Obelix, and the Roman Holiday references, I am cheering about Nietzsche Sun's reappearance lol
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!!
I did a presentation on Cunning Little Vixen in my Czech Holiday survey as well as a teasor for Pocket Opera's production of the opera.
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.
YES!!!
Love this piece!
Love all the complexities in it
I fell in love with The Pines of Rome when my college band played it for a concert. So many unique moments all throughout!
Hey. You should definitely do an episode about the Brandenburg Concertos; they are worth knowing.
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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 🎉🎉🎉
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.
I love this trilogy so much thanks for doing pines
I'll never hear the words "pine trees" the same way again.
True indeed🤣
Well you see those PINE TREES are everywhere around Rome.🤣
@@teodoragradinaru8572 Mediterranean Stone Pines as they are actually called.
Oh yeh, the recorded bird song. .. i always worry about the offstage buccane parts but forget the bird bit
That bird is a Nightingale which Respighi would quote again in his Birds.
My favorite piece, thanks for covering
The "Appian you know it" joke was exceptional
here for the hunky pines 🔥
Thank you so much for these amazing videos ❤
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Thank you for noticing! And watching.
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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.
You forgot to mention Fantasia 2000 with Humpback Whales.
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! 😁
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am writing a novel series and the two composers I have on constantly are De Falla and especially Respighi; I'm keen to learn more about him.
I cannot believe the Pines of Rome is meant to be EXACTLY what goes on in my head; I see rowdy schoolkids rumbling their way to school amid pine around a beautiful villa---I always thought I was making up my own visuals...
Fantastic video, informative and with a great sense of humour! Thanks - really enjoyed it!😀😀
I just performed this with my youth orchestra (I had the English Horn solo) :)
Another brilliant achievement. Bravo!
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! 🥰
I love how you add things from old episodes to the new ones! Here is Rachmaninoff, his wife and sister and the Nietzsche Sun from Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Can you please do a episode on Chopin and Liszt, for Liszt, can you do his first piano concerto and for Chopin, please do the Op. 10 and 25 Études.
"Classics Explained was here" was the funniest thing I saw in the video.
Another masterpiece!
I placed this among the compositions for Earth Day.
Great video! Pines is such an amazing piece!
For Earth Day!
Babe new classic explained dropped don't wake up though I'm gonna watch it myself
Astérix and Obélix cameo ❤❤❤
Another noteworthy instrumental Italian composer is Petro Yon who wrote Gesu Bambino, Advent Suite, Shepherds March, etc.
Can you make a Video on another Programmatic symphony? Like Beethoven‘s 6th or Schumann‘s 3rd?
If possible, can u plz do the other 2 tone poems in the Roman Trilogy, PLEEEEZ????
Pino D'Angiò is definitely my favourite classical Opera composer of all times.!, "Ma quale idea" is way better than "Nessun dorma" or "La donna è mobile".., such a timeless masterpiece..!
Again, with the Appion Way I saw a host of great beasts on migration, which concluded a chapter I was having trouble with.
I recommend to you Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s,Othello suite great music. And his works need recognition.
Jean Sibelius made another forest work- Tapiola in 1926, but it is much darker.
Bravo!!
It’ll be awesome if you make a episode of Romanian Rhapsody by George Enescu :3
Anatol Lyadov also wrote three Tone poems- Baba Yaga, The Enchanted Lake, & Kikimora (all suited for a Halloween Playlist).
Such a beautiful piece! 😍 And to think, I thought it was about flying humpback whales, lol. 😆 😉
In Fantasia 2000's depiction- the last movement is set to humpback whale migration.
You should make a episode about Bach’s cello suites
Tchaikovsky nutcracker next please!!!
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.
When's your next episode coming out?
The Auryn of The Neverending Story
Peak symphonic writing, the roman trilogy might be the most overlooked works in classical music.
This is epic
The Fantasía 2000 Blue WHALE piece, which is given very short shrift
It would be great if you make episodes on Rossini's The Barber of Seville and William Tell 🥰
3rd movement of the Pines is solely responsible for creating a vast portion of my novel
Great video ❤
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.
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.
How about Rossini's bel canto masterpieces?
@@alex9920ro He also did the William Tell overture.
@@TristanMA no, there is no episode where he talked about this piece.
The 100th anniversary of Pines of Rome 🎉
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.
Let's get weird!! Second Viennese School time baby!!
Respighi's Best Symphonic Poem ( Ton poem) but Catacomb is realy a Little Bit Spooky Maybe Respighi is = Italiano Pizza
Would please cover Puccini's Turandot! I want to hear Nessun Dorma.
How about Giazotto's Adagio after a fragment by Albinoni?
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?
Part of the second movement sounds a lot like one of the main themes in Ben Hur. Are they related?
Hehe. Definitely left that comment before the video was done.
Please make a video about Gustav Mahler!!!!
@classicsexplained I think you should do English folk song suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Try The Lark Ascending or Fantasia on Greensleeves.
“THE PINE TREES🥹”
Please Roman festivals as well!
Does the thumbnail show... an oboe with the fingering system of a Boehm clarinet?
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!
pines of rome my beloved
Can you talk about the “La Traviata” opera?
Or try Messa da Requiem for a more famous non-operatic work of Verdi.
Do William Tell Overture next
Can you do the resurrection symphony by G. Mahler
Thank you Friar Skeltal
doot doot
Brahms Requiem would be nice?
Both Respighi and Glazunov died in 1936.
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.