The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was integrally connected to the development of a serious tradition of symphonic music in Italy. It was the country's first orchestra to devote itself exclusively to the symphonic repertoire, giving premieres of major works such as Respighi's Roman tone poems. The orchestra was founded in 1908. Daniel Harding is the conductor-designate of the orchestra, set to take up the baton in 2024. In 1991, under conductor Franco Capuana, the orchestra backed a recording of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. The orchestra backed pianist Beatrice Rana in a recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23. The orchestra released several albums under Antonio Pappano, including a cycle of Leonard Bernstein's three symphonies (2018) and recordings of Rossini's Messa di Gloria (2022) and Puccini's Turandot (2023).