The Filarmonica della Scala: an Italian orchestra live in HD at Movies @ Gorey Cinema
To mark our thirtieth anniversary, the orchestra inaugurates a project that will bring great symphonic music live in HD from La Scala to cinemas in Italy and abroad: Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, Andrea Battistoni and Fabio Luisi will be conducting four concerts, which will be broadcast in cinemas around the world.
The Filarmonica della Scala under the lead of an outstanding German conductor, namely Christoph Eschenbach, as well as with three Italian maestros: the highly acclaimed Riccardo Chailly and Fabio Luisi and, for the first time on its podium, Andrea Battistoni.
Saturday, April 21st @ 7pm
George Gershwin: An American in Paris, Catfish Row , Concerto in fa
Riccardo Chailly, conductor.
Stefano Bollani, piano.
Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, and the Italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani has already topped the charts around the world with their recordings of Gershwin. However, without any doubt, the fusion of classical sounds with jazz improvisations is at their best when heard live. Riccardo Chailly has had an on-going and invaluable rapport with the orchestra, having conducted numerous opera productions, such as Madama Butterfly, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rigoletto and Aida, and a wide ranging symphonic repertoire which includes a triumphant tour of the United States in 2007.
Monday, May 7 @ 7pm
Matteo Franceschini world première commissioned by the Filarmonica della Scala
Serge Rachmaninoff; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 2
Andrea Battistoni, conductor.
Alexander Romanovsky, piano.
The 23-year-old Andrea Battistoni, the most successful young Italian conductor who will conduct a production of The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala in 2012, will lead the Filarmonica and together with the equally young pianist Alexander Romanovsky through the most spellbinding melodies by Rachmaninov.
Andrea Battistoni makes his debut with the Filarmonica with an impressive programme of romanticism, with remarkable virtuosity that starts with a world première of a musical composition by the 32-year-old Matteo Franceschini commissioned by the Filarmonica.
Monday, May 21st @ 7pm 
Gabrieli, Three Canzonas (transcription by Claudio Ambrosini)
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4
Casella, Paganiniana
Respighi, Feste Romane
Fabio Luisi conductor.
Rafał Blechacz, piano.
Fabio Luisi, after his commitments in Geneva, Dresden and Vienna, is in the limelight owing to his recent appointment as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. For his debut with the Filarmonica scheduled for 21 May, he will perform, apart from three canzonas to mark the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli, Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto with the young Polish prodigy Rafał Blechacz and two Italian symphonic pieces of extraordinary orchestral virtuosity: the enthralling Paganiniana by Alfredo Casella and the Feste Romane by Ottorino Respighi, a piece of such vivid imagery as to embody an authentic example of musical cinema.
