Performers

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Juraj Valčuha – conductor

Programme

Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose, ballet music
Maurice Ravel – La Valse, a choreographic poem for orchestra
Ottorino Respighi – Fountains of Rome, P. 106
Ottorino Respighi – Pines of Rome, P. 141

Despite his youth Juraj Valčuha is an internationally renowned Slovak conductor who returns to the BMF after his successful performance two years ago, this time with a popular Roman orchestra and attractive French-Italian programme featuring works of great names of impressionism: Ravel’s music to his ballet Mother Goose (only a five-movement suite used to be performed at concerts), the composer’s flamboyant La valse and a pair of monumental symphonic poems by Ottorino Respighi.