Music for Epiphany
Feste Romane (Roman Festivals) is much less well known than the composer's companion piece The Pines of Rome. The final movement - the final Feste - is La Befana - Epiphany. seems tailor made as today's choice.
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Respighi set this in Piazza Navona - according to wikipedia the music manages to "create a festive clamour of Roman songs and dances, including a barrel organ and a drunken reveler depicted by a solo tenor trombone".
The video includes all four Festes - so you will have to wait for La Befana!
