Composer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
Orchestra: Prague Sinfonia
Conductor: Christian Benda
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Size: 1.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. La gazza ladra: Overture
02. Semiramide: Overture
03. Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, Act I: Sinfonia
04. Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia, Act I: Sinfonia
05. Le Siège de Corinthe Overture
06. Sinfonia al Conventello
07. Ermione, Act I: Sinfonia – Troia! qual fosti un di!
Prague Sinfonia
Christian Benda
Recorded: 2011, 2012
Recording Venue: Kulturni Dum Barikadniku, Prague, Czech Republic
Rossini wrote some of music’s most masterful and lovable operas. His gift for comic and tragic forms was matched by a relish for characterisation, qualities that are always evident in his overtures. La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is perhaps the most famous, one of the world’s most popular concert openers. But in Otello he reveals his more complex turns of phrase and in Le siège de Corinthe the writing is dramatic and colourful. The overture for Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra was used again a year later by Rossini for Il barbiere di Siviglia. This is the first of four discs of the complete Rossini Overtures.