Sound
From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin: Aaron Copland, Danzon Cubano; Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas brasileiras No. 2; Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story symphonic dances. Conductor John Neschling. RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pascal Rophé and featuring Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier on piano, performs: Veress, "Hommage à Paul Klee", a fantasia for two pianos and string orchestra; and Ravel, "Concerto for the Left Hand" for piano and orchestra.
From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by D. Kitaenkoosn, performs works by Rachmaninov and Ravel.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium, conductor John Axelrod presents three distinct moments of great music inspired by three iconic films: the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein’s *West Side Story*, which, before being adapted for the cinema (twice: in 1961, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, and in 2021, directed by Steven Spielberg), was one of Broadway’s greatest hits; the Orchestral Suite from Federico Fellini’s La Strada, featuring the famous music of Nino Rota; and the Suite from Star Wars, the film saga created by George Lucas in 1977 with music by John Williams.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, with Seong-Jin Cho on piano, performs works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36.
From the ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium in Turin, for Rai Orchestra POPS, conductor Gianna Fratta, alongside solo pianist Alessandro Taverna, presents a programme dedicated to America: from the masterpieces of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein to the science-fiction scores of John Williams.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the young conductor Michele Gamba leads the Rai National Symphony Orchestra for Rai NuovaMusica. The program features two major orchestral works by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Photoptosis, in its Italian premiere, and Stille und Umkehr. The concert continues with the Italian premiere of Enno Poppe’s Schnur for violin and orchestra, performed by violinist Francesco D’Orazio, and concludes with Iannis Xenakis’s Jonchaies for large orchestra.
From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valchua and featuring pianist Alexander Malofeev, performs works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.
From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium comes the debut concert of Franco-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with the Rai Orchestra, performing the Jewish rhapsody for cello and orchestra *Schelomo*, one of Ernest Bloch’s best-known works. Tomáš Netopil takes to the podium and, to open the programme, presents the Rai premiere in Turin of the Overture from the third act of the opera Bouře (The Tempest), written in 1895 by the composer Zdeněk Fibich and based on Shakespeare’s play. The evening concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, composed in 1889 in Prague and known as the ‘English’ Symphony.
From the RAI Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, soprano Giuliana Gianfaldoni and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, perform Pergolesi’s *Stabat Mater dolorosa* and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral).
From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5 in D major, performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Tate.
The Rai National Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones performs: Charpentier, Te Deum in D major for soloists, choir, and orchestra, and J.S. Bach, Magnificat in D major for soloists, choir, and orchestra.
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valčuha, performs: Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. Gloria Campaner on piano.
From the Auditorium in Turin, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ottavio Dantone, performs Franz Joseph Haydn’s *The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross* (orchestral version).
From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Maestro William Eddins conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with the remarkable percussionist Simone Rubino.
The Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valcuha, with Gloria Campaner at the piano, performs: Rachmaninov, Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 for piano and orchestra.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli, performs Arvo Pärt’s *Fratres*, Antonio Vivaldi’s *Stabat Mater* (featuring countertenor Carlo Vistoli), and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.
From the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, performs a selection of music from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s two-act ballet "The Nutcracker", Op. 71. Actors Mario Acampa and Elisa Lombardi enhance the performance, bringing the magical atmosphere of Christmas to life.
From the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, maestro Ennio Morricone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with the choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the participation of Massimo Ranieri.
