Classical creativity: Beethoven and Spontini in Milan

Now Director Emeritus of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the rarely heard Mass in F minor by Anton Bruckner.

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Lorenzo Viotti conducts the death and rebirth of Spring in music

Alissa Balocco, 8th February

The Swiss conductor returns to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presenting a triptych of pieces by Schumann, Debussy and Zemlinsky inspired by the season of renewal.

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Bereft blues as the Santa Cecilia and Hrůša play at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 18th May

Lackluster Gershwin undercuts an otherwise impressive outing by Jakub Hrůša and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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Kirill Gerstein: a Mozartian master with the Santa Cecilia

Alissa Balocco, 25th January

The pianist enchants the audience with Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, conducted by Leonidas Kavakos.

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.

Classical creativity: Beethoven and Spontini from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia