Respighi's Roman Festivals

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)

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