Performances of Ottorino Respighi at BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings in the world.

Nil Venditti, Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra travel from the West of Ireland to the shores of the Bosphorus, in music by Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Fazil Say and Anna Clyne.

Unchained emotion: the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Dvořák’s most passionate symphony, and joins pianist Alexander Gadjiev in Respighi’s sumptuous, unfairly neglected Piano Concerto.

Nil Venditti returns to BBC Hoddinott Hall this November with another programme featuring Respighi and Rossini, this time alongside the iconic Violin Concerto by Barber and the UK premiere of María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir’s Oceans.