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The Italian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi performs Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances for Orchestra op.45.D
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 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 history of symphonic music told by the great quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Music by the Rai Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta.
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 in Turin, conductor Luciano Berio and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with soprano Anna Rita Taliento, baritone Alan Opie, and violist Sabrina Giuliani, perform: Ulisse, a suite from the opera by Luigi Dallapiccola, and Concert Music for Viola and String Orchestra by Giorgio Federico Ghedini.
La traviata in Paris is a film-opera of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata filmed live on television and worldwide, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, conceived and produced by Andrea Andermann in 2000. A Traviata that takes place live, with a television reporter who, amid the events of the day that took place in France on June 3, 2000, connects live to the scene of the action but at the time exactly a century earlier, in the Paris of June 3, 1900 (the setting of the opera is thus postdated from the original, which was conceived for the 1850s).
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.
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.
Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in D major, Op. 35, for violin and orchestra, with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra; and “Meditation,” with Marco Grisanti on piano.