"L'après-mich dun Faune" is one of those flashes of inspiration that sweep over a composer all too infrequently when the intensity of the emotion felt, is perfectly conveyed to the emotion expressed. There must be few people indeed who have never fallen under the sway of this brilliant tone poem. It sweeps one away to a primeval nature when perhaps we too should have pawed the green forest bed with cloven hoofs and lazed away the day with torpid dreams of lasciviousness.
It's all that and much more and the orchestra after a woolly start conveyed this picture most excellently. Respighi attained a maturity of expression rather too late in life. "The Fountains of Rome" is one of his experimental works and though of perfect workmanship. it, posses the great fault of the works of th period of his in that it is shallowly brilliant rather than a steady ex pression of artistic thought. The Municipal Orchestra. however, did it every justice.
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