" A piano cadenza ushers in the third movement, which also features a clarinet solo and a recorded nightingale.
This suite's somber second movement uses trombones to imitate a Gregorian chant, which according to the composer's attached notes, rises "from the depths" and "float[s] through the air like a solemn hymn." A piano cadenza ushers in the third movement, which also features a clarinet solo and a recorded nightingale. The fourth movement ends the suite with a brass fanfare depicting an army marching to the Capitol of the titular city. The Janiculum, the catacombs, the Appian Way, and the Villa Borghese are the settings of, FTP, this Ottorino Respighi series about the trees of Italy's capital city.
This suite's somber second movement uses trombones to imitate a Gregorian chant, which according to the composer's attached notes, rises "from the depths" and "float[s] through the air like a solemn hymn.
{Pines of Rome} or {Pini di Roma}