Longing for Italy

Four different times of day, four locations in Rome, but always overlooked by the beautiful and stately conifers. From children playing in the gardens of the Villa Borghese park under the midday sun to dawn breaking over a Roman legion marching across the Via Appia. Respighis wonderful symphonic poem Pines of Rome is starkly contrasted with Mendelssohn’s playful, exuberant and lilting Italian symphony, Symphoni No. 4 in A major.