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 ...

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Antonio Pappano’s Rome-based forces have had huge deserved success in the choral repertoire; here he ventures into Rossini’s dazzling opera overtures and the results are predictably fizzy and pungent: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born in Kiev, but brought up in western Europe, the composer and conductor Igor Markevitch visited Moscow in 1960 for a series of concerts with the Philharmonic, among which was this performance of ...

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