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Visiting the UK: Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia

In our International Orchestras series, Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in music by Bellini, Verdi and Rossini, taken at the EIF in 2016.

Continuing our series of International Orchestras in Radio 3 in Concert, an archive recording taken at the opening of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival in a gala concert at the Usher Hall with Sir Antonio Pappano conducting one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, performing works by Bellini, Verdi and also Rossini's operatic Stabat Mater.

Rossini: Sinfonia from Otello
Bellini: Sinfonia from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Verdi: Ballabile from Macbeth

INTERVAL at 8.00pm / Martin Handley talks to music critic Keith Bruce, who was there on the night.

8.20pm
Rossini: Stabat Mater

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Carmen Giannattasio (soprano)
Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo)
Yijie Shi (tenor)
Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Otello: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth: Ballabile

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Stabat Mater

    Singer: Carmen Giannattasio. Singer: Marianna Pizzolato. Singer: Yijie Shi. Singer: Roberto Tagliavini. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

    Performer: Mario Brunello. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No.9 & Cello Concerto.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 201.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter: V. Romeo at Juliet's before parting

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 505.

Broadcast

  • Wed 21 Jul 2021 19:30