Radio 3 in Concert: RAI National Symphony Orchestra

Fiona Talkington presents John Axelrod conducting the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Nino Rota's music for Il Gattopardo, excerpts of Ellington's arrangement of The Nutcracker and Gershwin's Catfish Row, recorded at the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin in July. During the interval there is a performance of Nino Rota's little-known nonetto - one of his personal favourite pieces of his own chamber music. Rota: Ballabili da il Gattopardo; Tchaikovsky arr. Duke Ellington: The Nutcracker (excerpts). RAI National Symphony Orchestra, John Axelrod (conductor). 8.10 Rota: Nonetto. Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Joaquín Riquelme García (viola), Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Olivier Thiery (double bass), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), François Meyer (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Benoît de Barsony (horn). 8.35 Gershwin: Catfish Row (Porgy & Bess). RAI National Symphony Orchestra, John Axelrod (conductor)