Respighi

The Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Alpesh Chauhan and violin virtuoso Ilya Gringolts, whisks audiences through three transformative decades of 20th‑century music. On the world‑premier screen, Respighi’s dreamlike symphonic poems—“Pini di Roma” and “Fontane di Roma”—paint Rome in shimmering, impressionistic tones, even picturing Neptune gliding through rush‑hour traffic on seahorses. Janácek’s explosive “Sinfonietta” (Op. 60) unleashes a gigantic brass phalanx of twenty‑five instruments that shatters the sound‑stage, while Korngold’s late‑Romantic Violin Concerto in D major (Op. 35) delivers a soaring Hollywood‑styled emotional landscape, its themes echoing his film scores for *Another Dawn* (1937), *Anthony Adverse* (1936), and *The Prince and the Pauper* (1937). Together, these three composers embody an unbridled joy for opulent orchestral sound, culminating in a brilliant, unforgettable finale that promises a fitting end to the season.