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From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, with Seong-Jin Cho on piano, performs works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36.

To mark Music Day, ten European orchestras will perform some of the finest piano concertos alongside prestigious soloists and under the baton of renowned conductors from various cities across the continent. The programme for this exceptional concert features works by Brahms, Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel and Mozart.

From the Rai “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium, Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, together with the Rai Orchestra's principal trumpet Roberto Rossi, performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 26. Conducting is James Feddeck, who opens and closes the concert with two works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: the Overture from the Concerto in B minor, Op. 26, “The Hebrides,” and Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the “Scottish.”

The Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov invites Anna Vinnitskaya, who won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007, to perform Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Ravel composed this virtuoso jazz-influenced work for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the First World War. Part of europiano, ARTE's special day celebrating the piano concerto across Europe

Conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg presents a rare work by Camille Saint-Saëns: the Oratorio de Noël. Composed in 1858 when the composer was just 23 years old, this cantata-like work is rarely performed on stage, making its performance quite unprecedented.

From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium in Turin, conductor Ion Marin and Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená pay tribute to the Italian composer Luciano Berio with his *Folk Songs* for voice and orchestra, followed by *Rendering*, based on Schubert’s sketches for an unfinished Tenth Symphony. Between the two pieces by Luciano Berio, Ion Marin presents Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.

From the RAI “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor, conducted by Ottavio Dantone. Joining him are soprano Berit Solset, contralto Delphine Galou, tenor Martin Vanberg, and bass Matthew Brook.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium, conductor Juraj Valčuha presents the Rai premiere in Turin of Jean Sibelius’s Symphonic Poem Op. 73, *Aallottaret* (The Oceanides), followed by the *Four Sea Interludes* from Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece *Peter Grimes*. In the second half of the programme, the mood shifts with two masterpieces of extreme expressive power: the Concert Suite from Béla Bartók’s one-act pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin and Maurice Ravel’s La valse, composed between 1919 and 1920, when Europe was attempting to emerge from the ruins of the Great War.

From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium, a concert by the Rai National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Trevor Pinnock. He is joined by pianist Christian Blackshaw. The programme features works by Mozart and Schubert.

From the ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium in Turin, for Rai Orchestra POPS, conductor Ana María Patiño-Osorio presents a programme of music spanning Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. The programme features works by Gabriela Ortiz, José Pablo Moncayo, Adolfo Mejía, Alberto Ginastera and Arturo Márquez.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, with Andrea Lucchesini as piano soloist, performs works by Gesualdo da Venosa: *Six Madrigals* (orchestrated by Stanisław Skrowaczewski).

From the RAI “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to Igor Stravinsky, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, with *Pulcinella* conducted by Ottavio Dantone, one of the foremost interpreters of early music, a harpsichordist and conductor, and a leading expert and scholar of Baroque performance practice. The vocal parts are performed by mezzo-soprano Paola Gardina, the young Australian tenor Alasdair Kent, and bass-baritone Paolo Bordogna. The evening concludes with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, known as “Jupiter.”

From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin: Pergolesi’s Concerto in G major for flute, strings and bass; Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite-Overture No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067, for flute, strings and bass; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Conducted by Fabio Biondi, with Jennifer O’Loughlin (soprano) and Sara Mingardo (contralto).

To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov invites international pianist and soloist Kirill Gerstein for a special evening. The programme includes Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic work dotted with octaves, thirds, leaps and glissandi.