Programme

Daniel
H rding,
Lisa Batiashvili & Santa Cecilia

Seconds
Grand Auditorium
Tue

  • Lisa Batiashvili looking at the window in a car
    ©: André Josselin
  • Daniel Harding posing in front of a window with his reflection
    ©: Musaccio
  • The musicians of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma sitting in a concert hall
    ©: Riccardo Musacchio, Flavio Ianniello

What you’ll hear and see

The music

  • Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
  • Sergueï Prokofiev Concerto pour violon et orchestre N° 2
  • Johannes Brahms Symphonie N° 2

The artists

  • Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma
  • Daniel Harding conducting
  • Lisa Batiashvili violin

III. Allegro, ben maracto

Bearing the auspicious name of the patron saint of musicians,

the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma, conducted by its new musical director, Daniel Harding, will be accompanying violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Concerto, very much marked by the contemporaneous Romeo and Juliet. But the evening will begin with another ballet, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy, who once had the pleasure of conducting the Roman orchestra – which clearly was born under the best of auspices.

For this episode of “The art of conducting”, we sat down with Daniel Harding, the music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He talked to us about how one get into conducting at a very young age, about how his initial sound idea evolves during the rehearsal process, about the similarities between piloting an aircraft & conducting an orchestra and much more!