The Pines of Rome, and the Restless Sea

Season 5 Episode 502

Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome” and. Claude Debussy’s masterpiece La Mer.

Ottorino Respighi’s great orchestral showpiece “The Pines of Rome” unites nature with the history of Rome, “the Eternal City,” in thrilling tone-pictures. Claude Debussy’s impressionist masterpiece La Mer (“The Sea”) portrays the ever-changing sea in its many moods and colors.