Blue skies and umbrella pines along the Appian Way | The Catholic Traveler

Respighi's Pines of Rome, a four-movement symphonic poem depicting pine trees in four locations in Rome at different times of the day, is a dazzling musical portrait of light and land. In the second movement, "The Pines Near a Catacomb," a few pine trees silhouetted against the sky overhang the entrance of a Roman catacomb where the sound rises and falls into the cavern, with the horns and trombones representing priests chanting. Join us for the first two entries in Respighi's “Roman Trilogy” –

Riccardo Muti leads the CSO in an excerpt from Mvt. IV “The Pines of the Appian Way” of Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Video by Todd Rosenberg | Chicago Symphony Orchestra