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 ...

Overtures The Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor (RCA). This is the third recording to present Rossini overtures on period instruments, and as Derek Solomons’ prior interpretations (on Collins) are ...

It is a tried-and-true program for an orchestra: overture, concerto, symphony. There are many other ways to do an orchestra concert. But overture-concerto-symphony is common for a reason: it has been ...

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 ...

There's also a bonus in the little-known chamber-scale piece, Andante E Tema Con Variazioni In E-Flat Major. Pappano believes that his orchestra has a 'direct line' to the composer, truly grasping the ...

It is almost a decade since Pappano took over as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. This disc of Rossini Overtures finds the team at their most ...

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 ...

Rossini's best overtures all on one disc! If you don't know these tunes by name, you'll know them from countless soundtracks and TV commercials, as they seem to capture the vivacity and colour 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 ...

Peter Tregear is covering the role of Elmiro for Melbourne Opera. If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord ...