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June 17, 2020 Great live music returns with the Rai National Symphony Orchestra. From 18 June and until the end of July every Thursday at 20.30 at the Rai Auditorium "Arturo Toscanini" in Turin, the public service offers a series of "Concerts for the recovery", chamber and symphonic, with limited staff, broadcast live radio and streaming, and for an evening on TV too. For reasons related to the health emergency, for the teachers of OSN Rai, for the artists and for all the people involved, the necessary safety rules will be implemented and there will be no access to audience hall. The music signed Rai will still arrive in the homes of all Italians through Radio3 and the Rai Cultura portal, which will broadcast the seven concerts live and streaming. Rai5 will then broadcast live / delayed at 9.15 pm the evening of Thursday 9 July with Daniele Gatti, who will be the protagonist of three concerts. The cycle will be closed by Fabio Luisi on Thursday 30 July. 

The first two concerts involve the chamber groups of the OSN Rai. It starts on Thursday 18 June at 20.30 with the concert "Beethoven for the shooting" - live on Radio3 and onlive streaming on the Rai Cultura website - featuring the New Italian String Trio of OSN Rai and the String Quintet of OSN Rai. The first proposes the Trio in E flat major n. 1 op. 3 of the great German composer. Following, also by Beethoven - of which the 250th anniversary of his birth occurs - the Quintet for strings in C major is proposed op. 29 called "The storm".

After Beethoven, the second appointment will be a "Tribute to Mozart". Thursday 25 June - always at 20.30 and always live on Radio3 and in live streaming on the Rai Cultura website - several ensembles of strings and wind instruments of the OSN Rai are staged, offering the Entertainment in E flat major KV 113 for two clarinets , two horns and string quartet; the Serenade n. 1 in D major KV 100 for two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and string quartet; and the famous Serenata n. 13 in G major for string orchestra KV 525 called " Eine kleine Nachtmusik " (Small night serenade).

In July, however, two of the most successful Italian conductors in the world will be the protagonists: Daniele Gatti and Fabio Luisi. The first evening - Thursday 2 July at 20.30, live on Radio3 and streaming on the Rai Cultura website - is entitled "Classicism and Neoclassicism". Gatti compares Viennese Classicism and twentieth-century Neoclassicism, with three amusements by Mozart - n. 1 in D major KV 136, no. 2 in B flat major KV 137 and n. 3 in F major KV 138 - followed by Stravinsky 's Apollon musagète which in 1928 marked a turning point in the history of ballet.

The second concert directed by Gatti, Thursday 9 July, is broadcast live / delayed on Rai5 at 9.15pm and streamed on RaiPlay, as well as live on Radio3 at 8.30pm. It is entitled "Transfigurations" and instead compares two extraordinary twentieth-century pages: Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss and Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) by Arnold Schönberg, proposed in the author's version for string orchestra. 

Thursday, July 16 at 20:30 again the star chamber music with "The National Symphony Orchestra brass RAI" and a selection of songs ranging from early music, such as the Toccata from ' Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi and Canzona duodecimi tones of Giovanni Gabrieli, until the twentieth century by Richard Strauss, Aaron Copland and Chris Hazell, passing through an original chamber transcription of the famous Triumphal March from Giuseppe Verdi 's Aida .

The last appointment with Daniele Gatti, Thursday 23 July at 20.30, is entitled "The French twentieth century" and alongside pages such as Danses for harp and strings by Claude Debussy, Mister de L'instant for strings, cimbaloms and percussions by Henry Dutilleux and the Symphony n. 2 in D major for string orchestra and ad libitum trumpet by Artur Honegger. 

The cycle of "Concerts for the resumption" of the National Symphony Orchestra of Rai Fabio Luisi closes, which on Thursday 30 July at 20.30 proposes a concert entitled "Šostakovič and the great lyrics". The program Quiet City , Suite from the incidental music of Aaron Copland's Symphony no. 14 in G major op. 135 for soprano, bass, strings and percussion by Dmitrij Šostakovič, with the voices of Sandra Trattnigg and Matthias Goerne.