An English horn solo signals dawn in the final movement, where composer called for 6 bucinas, and the third movement, depicting the Janiculum, closes with a gramophone recording of a nightingale.
Regarding the first movement of this work, the composer wrote of children 'wrought up by their own cries like swallows in evening'. The two tenor trombones and bass trombone play reminiscently of priestly chanting in the second movement, and the lower instruments deliver a pulsating rhythm reflecting a tomb. An English horn solo signals dawn in the final movement, where composer called for 6 bucinas, and the third movement, depicting the Janiculum, closes with a gramophone recording of a nightingale. FTP, a gigantic crescendo representing a march along the Appian Way concludes what symphonic poem from a trilogy by Ottorino Respighi set in the Italian capital?
Regarding the first movement of this work, the composer wrote of children 'wrought up by their own cries like swallows in evening'.
{Pines of Rome} or {Pini di Roma}