Dazzling recordings of favourite and less well-known overtures. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 20 January 2014. The Prague Sinfonia Orchestra are on a mission to record all of Rossini’s overtures ...

Gioachino Rossini is one of history's best-loved opera composers, and his overtures are the perfect place to get a flavour of them. Find out why with our guide to his best ones! You can't get very far ...

As it reaches Volume 3, the brilliant Naxos series of complete Rossini Overtures is increasingly acclaimed and seems now unstoppable in its march towards being not only the finest collection of ...

Any self-respecting music-lover will have at least two or three of Rossini's Overtures in their collections. The best-known of them, including The Barber Of Seville and The Thieving Magpie, are so ...

Hard to believe the brilliant Naxos survey of Rossini's complete Overtures has reached Volume Four. It seems no time since it was launched, to great excitement on this page. Indeed, it's only four ...

(La) Scala di seta, '(The) Silken Ladder', Movements: Overture Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Antonio Pappano, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer (Il) Signor Bruschino (or Il figlio per ...

If there is a familiar template to the structure of most of Rossini’s opera overtures, Antonio Pappano and his Rome orchestra reveal that there is much more than rum-ti-tum routine in their musical ...

LATE last November I raved about Volume One of a new Naxos project to record all of Rossini's overtures in a four-volume set. The standard of Prague playing with conductor Christian Benda was ...

I've always had a soft spot for Gioacchino Rossini's overtures. Their slow introductions and sprightly melodies invariably lead to a big crescendo passage, in which Rossini repeats a motif several ...

Tancredi, Movements: ~ Gioachino Rossini, Composer Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor Orchestre de Chambre de Genève Michael Hofstetter, Conductor Aureliano in Palmira, Movements: Overture Gioachino ...