As Anneleen Lenaerts proves, Nino Rota brought the same gifts to his music for harp as he did to such unforgettable film scores as The Godfather, La dolce vita and Romeo and Juliet. “What could be better than to sweep an audience away and give them a moment of pure joy?” she asks. “For me, that is Nino Rota’s most important musical message.”

Brussels Philharmonic Soloists: Nadja Nevolovitsch, Samuel Nemtanu, Mihai Cocea, Kristaps Bergs