Rai Orchestra, a tribute to Brahms with the strings of Zorman and Dindo, conducted by Robert Treviño

Three leading figures for a complete tribute to Johannes Brahms: the violinist Itamar Zorman, on the rise and celebrated as a “virtuoso of emotions”, the cellist Enrico Dindo, winner of the prestigious Rostropovich Prize in Paris, and on the podium Robert Treviño.

It's the concert of the’Rai National Symphony Orchestra, scheduled for Thursday March 12, 2026 at 8.30pm at’Rai Auditorium Arturo Toscanini of Turin, in live on Rai Radio 3 And, at 10.50pm, on Rai 5. Repeat on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

The evening will be opened by Double Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 102, Brahms's final orchestral work, composed in 1887 during a stay in Thun, on the shores of the Swiss lake where the composer loved to retreat. Universally known as the Double Concerto, the work entrusts the solo roles to the violin and cello, protagonists of a tight and perfectly balanced confrontation. This choice translates the idea of fusing two instrumental personalities into a single, expansive symphonic discourse.

Giving voice to this dialogue will be Itamar Zorman and Enrico Dindo. The Israeli violinist, appreciated for his natural narrative tension and his ability to transform every performance into an intensely participatory experience, has performed in the world's most prestigious halls—from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, to Suntory Hall in Tokyo—and plays a precious 1734 Guarneri del Gesù. Dindo, born in Turin, a regular guest of international orchestras and festivals alongside conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, and Riccardo Muti, was described by Rostropovich as a musician "of extraordinary qualities, an accomplished artist, who possesses an exceptional sound capable of flowing like a splendid Italian voice.".

On the podium Robert Treviño, former Principal Guest Conductor of the RAI Orchestra, is currently Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra and Artistic Advisor to the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Born to a Mexican family and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he came to international attention in 2013 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, when he replaced Vassily Sinaisky at the helm of Verdi's Don Carlo. Since then, he has appeared with major American orchestras—from the Cincinnati Symphony to the Philadelphia Orchestra—and internationally, from the Munich Philharmonic to the London Symphony Orchestra. Trained under the influence of Michael Tilson Thomas and Seiji Ozawa, he has developed a particular affinity for the great Central European repertoire. With the RAI Orchestra, in autumn 2021, he led a successful tour of Germany, stopping in Frankfurt, Cologne, and Hamburg.

The program will close with Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 by Brahms, in the orchestral version created in 1937 by Arnold Schönberg. A reinterpretation that multiplies the power of the original, so much so that Eschenbach defined it as "the interpretation of an interpretation": the great Romantic legacy is ignited by new twentieth-century timbral nuances, giving the masterpiece a surprising, renewed sonic physiognomy.