Roman Holiday

Respighi’s riotous portraits of ancient and modern Rome are among
orchestral music’s most spectacular experiences. From the stillness of the city’s fountains to the bugle calls of the armies marching along the Appian Way, he conjures up a truly cinematic succession of images, in full orchestral colour. Half a century earlier Smetana gave his own beloved Bohemia a similar picture-postcard treatment, and tonight Sakari Oramo conducts the two most famous movements from his cycle ‘My Homeland’. The songful Violin Concerto by Smetana’s friend and compatriot Dvořák completes the programme, in the first concerto appearance at Symphony Hall for the CBSO’s new leader.

£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50

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