Dudamel Mania continues, this week by way of a concert given at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome this past November. Leading his Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar, Dudemel whips up a feast that, if the audience is any indication, was a complete barn-burner.

Recorded by RAI in Rome (with the engineers going a little overboard on levels), November 23rd this past year, the concert runs the gamut from Beethoven and Verdi to Stravinsky, Ravel, Ginastera and Leonard Bernstein.

Here's a rundown of what you'll be hearing:

IL CARTELLONE
ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela Simón Bolívar
direttore, Gustavo Dudamel

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 3 in mi bemolle maggiore op. 55 (Eroica)
- Allegro con brio
- Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
- Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
- Finale (Allegro molto)

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe, seconda suite
- Lever du jour (Alba)
- Pantomime (Pantomima)
Danse générale (Danza generale)

Igor Stravinskij
L’oiseau de feu (L’uccello di fuoco)
Suite dal balletto op. 20 (versione del 1919)
- Introduzione
- L’Uccello di fuoco e la sua danza
- Variazione dell’Uccello di fuoco
- Ronda delle Principesse
- Danza infernale del Re Katschej
- Berceuse e Finale

Giuseppe Verdi
Sinfonia da La forza del destino
Alberto Ginastera
Malambo, dal balletto Estancia

Leonard Bernstein
Mambo, dalle Danze sinfoniche da West Side Story*

Registrato il 23 novembre 2011 al Parco della Musica di Roma

The Beethoven is on the top player and the rest of this 2 hour concert is on the bottom player.

*You know the audience is on your side when, during the Mambo from Bernstein's West Side Story, the entire crowd screams "Mambo" on cue. That's audience participation.

Not the most mellow of Anti-road Rage Wednesday concerts, but a pretty memorable one.

Enjoy.

Something special again this week. Even the announcer at Radio France Musique said so.

L.A.'s very own (we like to think so) Gustavo Dudamel leading Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in an all-Brahms program (Symphony Number 3 and Symphony Number 1). Recorded live last week as it was happening, it's further evidence that Gustavo Dudamel is one of the greats and the brightest light to come along in a very long time.

The program is broken up between two players. The top player is the Brahms 3rd Symphony and the bottom player is the Brahms 1st Symphony. Announcements are in French and the audience is bonkers.

Here's the program:

Brahms:
Symphonie n°3 en fa majeur Op.90 (1883)
1- Allegro con brio
2- Andante
3- Poco allegretto
4- Allegro

Symphonie n°1 en ut mineur Op.68 (1876)
1- Poco sostenuto - Allegro
2- Andante sostenuto
3- Poco allegretto e grazioso
4- Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo ma con brio - Piu allegro

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Gustavo Dudamel, Direction

Enjoy and see a live concert at some point soon.