大象传媒

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Tom Redmond

Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Walton: Cello Concerto

8.15 Interval
Anonymous: Italiana; Besard: Air de cour; Anonymous: Spagnoletta: Poncalli arr J Williams: Passacaglia
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)

8.35
Sibelius: Symphony No 2

大象传媒 Philharmonic
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
John Storgards (conductor)

Another chance to hear Chief Guest Conductor of the 大象传媒 Philharmonic, John Storgards, present an Italian-inspired programme. Respighi's symphonic poem 'Fountains of Rome' takes us on a tour of the Eternal City from dawn to sunset with visits to four of its fountains, "contemplated" the composer explained "at the hour in which their character is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape". Alban Gerhardt joins the orchestra for the lyrical and rhapsodic Cello Concerto written while Walton was living on Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples. To end the concert, John Storgards brings us music of his compatriot, Sibelius; his Second Symphony, distinctively Finnish but conceived and first sketched while he was on holiday in Rapello and Rome.

First broadcast in September 2018