Respighi's Roman Festivals

Available for 29 days

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making which includes a spotlight on Italian vistas. In today's programme cellist duo Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt perform Paganini recorded in Eisenach, Italy's radio symphony orchestra, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra play music by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez and the Luxembourg Philharmonic perform Respighi's Roman Festivals. Also featured is a recital from La Scintilla Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Minasi who perform music by Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger and Biagio Marini. There are also recordings from the current Radio 3 New Generation Artists throughout. Cellist Sterling Elliott performs Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, pianist Tom Borrow plays Janacek, the Kleio Quartet plays Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, and Schumann's Kreisleriana is performed by Julius Asal. Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Sterling Elliott (cello) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Christian Reif (conductor) Nicolò Paganini Fantasy on Rossini's 'Moses in Egypt' Jens Peter Maintz (cello) Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello) Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 RAI National Symphony Orchestra Ana María Patiño-Osorio (conductor) Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger Corrente quinta La Scintilla Orchestra Riccardo Minasi (conductor) Biagio Marini Passacaglia a quattro La Scintilla Orchestra Riccardo Minasi (conductor) Ottorino Respighi Roman Festivals (Feste romane), symphonic poem Luxembourg Philharmonic Gustavo Gimeno (conductor) Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Leos Janacek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' Tom Borrow (piano) Carl Nielsen String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 Kleio Quartet Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Robert Schumann Kreisleriana Julius Asal (piano) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live"