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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.

La Lira di Orfeo and Raffaele Pe bring Handel's opera in a concert performance to the Parco della Musica. 

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

Levit offers impeccable Beethoven, while Pappano enchants the Rome audience with Cherubini and Sibelius. 

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow and conductor Jérémie Rhorer make successful debuts with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. 

The pianist enchants with her Tchaikovsky, while the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia tackles an unfamiliar Weinberg symphony.

Thomas Adès takes the audience in Rome into paradise, or the ascension into Dante's heavens, as his Paradiso makes its first appearance in Italy in a programme dedicated to the celestial world. 

The conductor directs the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Theatres of Voices in contrasting symphonies by Berio and Stravinsky.

The Russian pianist returns to the stage of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with a very unusual programme, from a Bach fantasia to Rachmaninov's romances.   

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha is the pick of the soloists in a weighty reading of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang under Kazuki Yamada. But can Schubert's Fifth withstand the same approach? 

Santa Cecilia's newly-appointed Principal Guest Conductor Jakub Hrůša leads an all-Czech concert, promising a bright future in Rome.

The Dutch conductor makes his debut at Santa Cecilia with a popular, fully symphonic programme.

Some last-minute changes in the programme undermine the success of a promising evening at Santa Cecilia.

Gardiner's vivacious conducting of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia made this performance one to remember.

After a bumpy first half, Pappano turns the evening into a memorable one by delivering an outstanding rendition of the Finn's First Symphony.

Kirill Petrenko's remarkable artistry and Boris Giltburg's vibrant piano-playing are the highlights of the Santa Cecilia's performance.

After their "military" theme last week, Daniele Gatti and Markus Werba turned towards nature for their second programme with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Baritone Markus Werba shines in six military songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Released from the incarceration of directorial prison walls, Fidelio can still make a most powerful impact on the concert platform.

Thursday evening at Renzo Piano’s modern Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, a program given of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov’s music was marked by grace, musical distinction, and infectious excitement. The excitement was brought by the pianism of the young Daniil Trifonov, who astounded with profound and agreeable musicality in the Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor.

L’Orchestre Symphonique National de la Rai et son chef, James Conlon, ont occupé la scène de l’Auditorium Parco della Musica pour une soirée entièrement dédiée au compositeur tchèque Antonín Dvořák.

L'orchestre et le chœur de santa Cecilia ont marqué la fin de la Semaine Sainte d'un grand moment de musique et de spiritualité avec ce bel hommage au Cantor de Leipzig. 

Pour leur troisième soir de représentation, les musiciens de l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia et Ton Koopman ont offert au public de l’Auditorium Parco della Musica une performance faite de rigueur et de complicité.

La programmation invitait à s’interroger sur le rapport de Mozart et Chostakovitch aux autres artistes de leur temps ou de l’histoire de la musique en général.

Rafael Payare préside, avec un style à la fois sérieux et détendu, à l’introduction antéchronologique dans le langage hexagonal avec Claude Debussy, puis Camille Saint-Saëns et enfin Hector Berlioz.

L’orchestre et le chœur de l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia  proposait un concert éclectique réunissant compositeurs du Centre et de l'Est européens.

L’Accademia organisait, ce mardi 4 novembre, un dynamique concert entièrement dédié à Antonio Vivaldi, dans la fameuse salle Santa Cecilia de l’Auditorium Parco della Musica de Rome.