The strengths of this performance immediately leap out in the warm, sinuous opening to Fountains of Rome, with elegant, sensuous woodwind solos and, at the opening of the second movement, in the roughness of the brass. This is not music that needs to be too polite, and it’s good to hear the Italian musicians throwing themselves into it with such affectionate abandon.

For the RAI National Symphony Orchestra these images, these evocations, are just that little bit closer to home emotionally speaking. It’s something we can feel rather than hear. There’s an ‘authenticity’ about their playing.