Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

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 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 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 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 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 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.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin: Johann Sebastian Bach – Anton Webern: Fugue (Ricercata) for 6 voices from *The Musical Offering* BWV 1079 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto in A major K. 622 for clarinet and orchestra – Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra – Igor Stravinsky. Conductor: John Axelrod.

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 Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Maestro William Eddins conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with the remarkable percussionist Simone Rubino.

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 “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, to celebrate the centenary of Luciano Berio’s birth, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest conductor Robert Treviño present “Folk Songs” for voice and orchestra, performed by mezzo-soprano Justina Gringytė. The second half of the evening features Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43: one of the Russian composer’s most emblematic and experimental works.

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 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 Rai Auditorium in Turin, the history of symphonic music told by the great quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Music by the Rai Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta.

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.

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.

From the Auditorium Rai Arturo Toscanini in Turin, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, conducted by John Axelrod and featuring the voices of The Swingles, performs music by Luciano Berio, Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra, and Leonard Bernstein, Divertimento for orchestra and Fancy Free, suite for orchestra.

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 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.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai Orchestra’s principal guest conductor, Robert Treviño, presents Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major, performed in the version completed by the English musicologist Deryck Cooke.

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.

The Italian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi performs Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances for Orchestra op.45.D