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When everybody is cheering about Asterix, Obelix, and the Roman Holiday references, I am cheering about Nietzsche Sun's reappearance lol

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.

In Fantasia 2000's depiction- the last movement is set to humpback whale migration.

Only thing I hear is "Blitzkrieg"!!!

Stereotype much?

This classical piece has always confounded me. You've finally explained it. Could you do a video on Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony. I think it's about the agony of the Spanish Civil War. Others say it's another dig at Stalin at the height of the purges; though his opera Lady Macbeth is a more explicit criticism.

An example of “biomusic” predating Einojuhani Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, and Alan Hovhaness “And God Created Great Whales”.

Yeah, but what about the ✨🌈PINE TREES⭐✨

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.

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.

“THE PINE TREES🥹”

The novelty piano section reminds me of Chopin’s “Wrong Note” Etude

The Tribute to Asterix and Obelix (English speaker here) really warmed my heart. As much as the whole tribute to Respighi! Thank you.

That’s a bit of a downer; is this Respheigi again?

Fascinating. You have a gift of putting things with a contemporary flair.

YES!!! Love this piece! Love all the complexities in it

I didn’t know the Pines of Rome was all about sexy ents.

Do William Tell Overture next

PINE TREES

I had no idea at the time but this was on Bruno Bozetto’s Allegro Non Troppo.

I just performed this with my youth orchestra (I had the English Horn solo) :)

0:02 charlie?!?!

Another brilliant achievement. Bravo!

I fell in love with The Pines of Rome when my college band played it for a concert. So many unique moments all throughout!

Tchaikovsky nutcracker next please!!!

In my mind, Jupiter brings visions of the romantic American western frontier. I see open vistas with a moving herd of cattle and a stream. I feel as though I have seen this in a movie. "Quintessentially English with children dancing 'round the maypole"? Maybe we all see this as our romanticized past?

so... PINE TREES!!!!

I didn't know they built Armenian churches in the Roman Campagna.

you see those ✨🌈PINES🌟🌲

Please, make one on Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

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 🎉🎉🎉

Fantastic video, informative and with a great sense of humour! Thanks - really enjoyed it!😀😀

here for the hunky pines 🔥

Yes

Always a great day when a Classics Explained video drops! I hope there is some Bruckner or Mahler story cooking up next!

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.

Jean Sibelius made another forest work- Tapiola in 1926, but it is much darker.

Your second Italian Art Music survey for Earth Day after Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Both Respighi and Glazunov died in 1936.

The 100th anniversary of Pines of Rome 🎉

Another masterpiece!

Graeger

Magen David

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.

Respighi died aged 55, in 1936. Elsa survived her husband by more than 45 years with an undiminished devotion to her memories of both the man and his scores.

There was one more famous Italian work after the works of Respighi. In 1958, Remo Giazotto composed the iconic Adagio for Strings and Organ in G Minor, based on a fragment by Tomaso Albinoni.

Respighi made a dark piece called Dance of the Gnomes in 1919.

The Final triumph is reminiscent of that in Stavinsky's The Firebird.

The Western Roman Empire ended in 476 with the capture of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer of the Ostrogoths. The Eastern (Byzantine) Empire continued until the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century.

The Fantasia 2000 segment starts with a supernova and gulls, and then introduces the humpback whale family. During the Janiculum section, the whale calf, with the help of his family, finds his way out of the ice cavern. During the Via Appia section, the whale pod migrates towards a new surface with a final breach and splash.