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Roman Festivals - Feste Romane
Ottorino #Respighi
https://youtu.be/uMRlRPlr9L4

"The first section is a lurid depiction of the Circus Maximus under Nero, with Christians, lions, and gladiators fighting it out among the roars of the crowd. The second (4:50) paints a trail of Christian pilgrims trodding toward the now Eternal City of Papal Rome. The third suggests L’Ottobrata, the city’s October Festival (12:15), mixing sounds of the hunt with serenades of love. (Notice the swaggering italianità of 14:00 and the mandolin tune of 16:25; we are beginning the turn towards the Roma of Fellini and Nino Rota.) And the fourth (19:45) is a raucous portrait of La Befana, the night before Epiphany as celebrated in a very twentieth-century Piazza Navona. Connoisseurs—like Adams—will notice that the piece, for its time, wasn’t so “conservative” after all: the third and fourth movements are sometimes reminiscent of the “Petrushka” of Stravinsky, who, like Respighi, studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the most imaginative orchestrators of all time."
-Russell Platt
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#Mozart Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K. 320 "Posthorn"

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Written in August 1779 in Salzburg and articulated in five movements
Serenades and Amusements for strings and wind instruments are music of pleasant listening, with simple and linear writing and clear and precise harmonic signs, which denote a balanced and serene classicism.
#Posthorn was a small natural horn, of that time, a professional tool of the postilion, which emitted its signals at the start, at the arrival and every time it crossed another postal car.📯📯
You can listen to its sound in the second part of the second Minuetto, the movement before the Finale.
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https://youtu.be/MS5YCVdPxCk

Mozart / Serenade in D major, K. 320 "Posthorn" (Mackerras)