Italian TV cycle "The Symphony of the XX Century".

[alberto]

Sorry: it was broadcast in the Italian Television, not very late in the evening, about thirty five years ago: there were two public TV channels and nothing else.
As a youngster (thinking to have sometimes better things to do) I didn't follow the entire cycle.
Anyway I SAW and listened (performed mostly by the Roma Radio and Television Orchestra........later, about 15 years ago, disbanded):
-Elgar Symphony n.1
-Pizzzetti Symphony in A
-Martinu Symphony n.1
-Walton Symphony n.2
Since a lot of years (certainly in Italy, I don't know elsewhere) a cycle like that would be unthinkable on a "generical" TV channel.

[eschiss1]

I think the Pizzetti is still unrecorded - I believe I've seen the score (sinfonia in la, pub. Ricordi in the 1940s, at Cornell University Library) but never heard the work.
My mistake- there is a Commelli recording on the Rohm Music Foundation label, originally from 78s, perhaps the same even. http://www.worldcat.org/title/selection-of-japanese-78-rpm-recordings-iii/oclc/227180719&referer=brief_results

[lechner1110]

 Hi,  Pizzzetti's Symphony is available from Amazon in Japan.  http://www.amazon.co.jp
(Search keyword is ' Festmusik zur Feier des 2600 jahrigen Bestehens des Kaiserreiches Japan op.84 etc ' copy and paste please)

This recording is from first performance of this symphony at 1940.
This symphony was performed at cycle of Japanese festival ' The 2600 anniversary celebrations of the Empire of Japan '
Detail is here

http://data.lullar.com/%E4%BA%A4%E9%9F%BF%E6%9B%B2_(%E3%83%94%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3)

[Dundonnell]

I think/hope that the Pizzetti Symphony is on Naxos's list for recording in their Italian Music series.