BBC Proms: John Wilson Conducts Respighi’s ‘Roman Trilogy’
Royal Albert Hall, SW7 2AP , [Venue Details]John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London – hailed by critics as ‘peerless’ and ‘simply as good as it gets’ – are back for the first of two concerts this season.
Ottorino Respighi’s love affair with Rome is captured in a trilogy of orchestral tone-poems – heat-soaked, colour-saturated works that invite the listener into the mercurial life of the Eternal City: festivals and dances, misty mornings and scented summer evenings, fanfares and solitary silence.
The concert opens with Verdi’s much-loved overture to The Force of Destiny and Walton’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto, its ardent, yearning spirit perhaps a portrait of the composer’s own marriage.
Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard is the soloist.
Broadcast on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer
Programme
Verdi - The Force of Destiny – overture 8’
Walton - Cello Concerto 28’
Interval
Respighi - Roman Festivals 25’
Fountains of Rome 15’
Pines of Rome 21’
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Admission
Min: £28.52
Max: £89.72
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London
Other key names: Jonathan Aasgaard - cello
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Not recommended for U5's
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BBC Proms: John Wilson Conducts Respighi’s ‘Roman Trilogy’
Friday, 24 Jul 2026 @7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall, SW7 2APMore Information
John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London – hailed by critics as ‘peerless’ and ‘simply as good as it gets’ – are back for the first of two concerts this season.
Ottorino Respighi’s love affair with Rome is captured in a trilogy of orchestral tone-poems – heat-soaked, colour-saturated works that invite the listener into the mercurial life of the Eternal City: festivals and dances, misty mornings and scented summer evenings, fanfares and solitary silence.
The concert opens with Verdi’s much-loved overture to The Force of Destiny and Walton’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto, its ardent, yearning spirit perhaps a portrait of the composer’s own marriage.
Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard is the soloist.
Broadcast on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer
Programme
Verdi - The Force of Destiny – overture 8’
Walton - Cello Concerto 28’
Interval
Respighi - Roman Festivals 25’
Fountains of Rome 15’
Pines of Rome 21’
Admission
Min: £28.52
Max: £89.72
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London
Other key names: Jonathan Aasgaard - cello
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Not recommended for U5's
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