Pappano returns home: The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Oslo

By Aksel Tollåli, 14 February 2013

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Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo on 9 February 2013

Puccini, Preludio sinfonico

Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder

Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 2 in E minor, Op.27

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor

Anna Larsson, Contralto

Yunchan Lim, Daniel Harding and the Santa Cecilia in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 4th December

Daniel Harding and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia choose proportion over spectacle as their Asian tour reaches Seoul.

****1

Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Pia Maltri, 30th October

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

***11

Pappano and Levit take the Santa Cecilia on an incredible journey

Alissa Balocco, 2nd November

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

****1

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Aksel Tollåli

Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.