Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
The RAI National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI) dates back to Italy's early experiments with national radio broadcasting. Under its current name, it has attracted some of the world's top conductors as guests.
National radio broadcasting in Italy began to grow along with that in other countries after World War I, and the voice of opera singer Maria Luisa Boncompagni was heard in a Unione Radiofonica Italiana broadcast from Rome in 1924. Branches were established in other cities, including Turin (1929), where the Fascist government radio administrator EIAR (Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche or "Italian Body for Radio Audio") acquired a disused theater, renovated it as a broadcast house, and established a symphony orchestra. After Italy's defeat in World War II, the EIAR was reorganized into the RAI (Radio Audizioni Italia). The RAI branches in other Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, and Naples, established orchestras of their own, but the RAI Orchestra Turin had a particularly high profile internationally, with such major figures as Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky, Leopold Stokowski, and Wolfgang Sawallisch making guest appearances there. At home in Italy, the RAI Orchestra Turin proved an important spawning ground for young conductors, with such future stars as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and Riccardo Chailly appearing there early in their careers.
In 1994, the four RAI orchestras were merged into a single entity called the RAI National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI). The group was headquartered in Turin, and it continued to hold a high profile beyond Italy, touring 14 French and German cities and traveling to Japan and to the Canary Islands in its first two years of existence. The orchestra's principal conductors have included Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (2001-2007), Juraj Valčuha (2009-2016), James Conlon (2016-2020), and, as of October 2023, Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The orchestra has recorded for the Stradivarius, Warner Music, and Deutsche Grammophon labels. In 2023, the RAI National Radio Symphony Orchestra released a recording of Respighi's Roman Trilogy on the Ondine label, with Robert Treviño conducting. Older recordings by the RAI Symphony Torino continued to appear in specialist reissues.
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Solbiati: Sinfonia seconda, Sinfonia & Die Sterne des Leidlands
Daniel Kawka, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 13 Apr 2007
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 (de Sabata) (1947)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Victor De Sabata
Classical - Released by Naxos on 12 Oct 2002
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Gustav Mahler, Igor Markevitch, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Eugenia Zareska, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 30 Jan 1989
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Verdi: La traviata (Mono Version)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Gabriele Santini, Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 2013
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Berlioz, Stravinsky, Strauss & Sibelius: Orchestral Works (Live)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Sergiù Celibidache
Classical - Released by Urania Records on 2 Oct 2020
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Beethoven & Schumann: Piano Concertos (Live)
Clara Haskil, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg, Mario Rossi, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 8 Apr 2013
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly, extraits (Mono Version)
Clara Petrella, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Angelo Questa
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1963
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Beethoven, Ibert & Others: Orchestral Works (Live)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Oralia Dominguez, Léopold Stokowski
Classical - Released by Archipel on 7 May 2021
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R. Strauss: Orchestral Works
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Marcelle Meyer, Mario Rossi
Classical - Released by Urania Records on 3 Jul 2020
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Ravel: Tzigane - Lalo: Symphonie espagnole - Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major
Franco Gulli, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Enrica Cavallo, Claudio Abbado, Ferdinand Leitner
Classical - Released by IDIS on 3 Jun 2016
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Giulini Conducts Schumann and Brahms
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Classical - Released by IDIS on 3 Sep 2013
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Verrando: Orchestral Works
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Pierre-André Valade
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 7 Sep 2007
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Fedele: Mosaïque
Dale Fedele, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Corinna Mologni, Marco Angius, Francesco D' Orazio
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on 4 Feb 2010
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Schubert: Symphony No. 3, D. 200 - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Op. 90, MWV N 16
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Mario Rossi
Classical - Released by Urania Records on 3 Jul 2020
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Mendelssohn & Schubert: Works (Live)
Gioconda De Vito, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Classical - Released by Archipel on 18 May 2009
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Bartók: Concerto No. 2 - Prokofiev: Concerto No. 1 (Live)
Franco Gulli, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti di Napoli, Mario Rossi, Sergiù Celibidache
Classical - Released by IDIS on 2 Sep 2014
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Verdi: La traviata, Préludes (Mono Version)
Gabriele Santini, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1958
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Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77 - Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64 (Mono Version)
Gioconda De Vito, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1950
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Bizet: Carmen, extraits chantés en italien (Mono Version)
Pia Tassinari, Franco Corelli, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Arturo Basile
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1963
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Verdi: Aida, extraits (Mono Version)
Maria Curtis Verna, Franco Corelli, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Angelo Questa
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1963
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Verdi: Rigoletto, extraits (Mono Version)
Giuseppe Taddei, Lina Pagliughi, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Angelo Questa
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1963
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo