Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141 San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Pines of Rome P. 141:
• 1 Respighi: Pines of Rome P. 141: The Pines of Villa Borghese 02:51
• 2 Respighi: Pines of Rome P. 141: The Pines Near a Catacomb 07:46
• 3 Respighi: Pines of Rome P. 141: The Pines of Janiculum 08:21
• 4 Respighi: Pines of Rome P. 141: The Pines of Appian Way 05:36
• Total Runtime 24:34

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Ottorino Respighi was fascinated with the music of Italy’s distant past; his hallmark was over-the-top orchestral color. He combines both in Pines of Rome, using “nature as a point of departure, in order to recall memories and vision. The centuries-old trees . . . become witnesses to the principal events in Roman life.” Premiered in 1924, it was one of the first pieces to include electronics in its orchestration through a recording of a nightingale.

San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Esa-Pekka Salonen
is known as both a composer and conductor. He is currently the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, where he works alongside eight Collaborative Partners from a variety of disciplines ranging from composers to roboticists. He is Conductor Laureate for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, where, as Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor from 2008 until 2021, he spearheaded digital projects such as the award-winning RE-RITE and Universe of Sound installations and the much-hailed app for iPad, The Orchestra; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was Music Director from 1992 until 2009, and was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall; and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is currently in the midst of Multiverse Esa-Pekka Salonen, a two-season residency as both composer and conductor, at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg; he is also the Composer in Residence at the Berliner Philharmoniker. As a member of the faculty of LA's Colburn School, he develops, leads, and directs the pre-professional Negaunee Conducting Program. He is the cofounder—and until 2018 served as Artistic Director—of the annual Baltic Sea Festival. In 2015 he addressed the Apple Distinguished Educator conference on the uses of technology in music education, and his Violin Concerto was featured in an international campaign for iPad.

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