Out of Italy | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Richard Strauss once joked that he could depict even a knife and fork in music. So now imagine the Roman Campagna, a moonlit Mediterranean and a carnival in Naples, all painted in glowing orchestral colours by a youthful genius: off the leash and loving it. When David Zinman conducts Strauss’s sumptuous Aus Italien, you’ll wonder why we don’t hear it more often. Vaughan Williams’s fizzing overture and Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto are more familiar. But you haven’t really heard Mozart until you’ve heard him played by Richard Goode – in the words of one critic, ‘you’d swear the composer himself was at the keyboard’