I have spent a considerable amount of time in the last fortnight listening to and being ceaselessly exhilarated by a new CD of overtures. They are all by Rossini and the CD will be reviewed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spectacular arrangement of Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville for two melodicas (that’s one of those toy keyboards with a mouthpiece). The Barber of Seville contains some of Rossini’s most ...

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 ...

The Proms concerts in London are essentially the biggest music festival in the world. Every year the world's great orchestras — including London's own — congregate in England for this festival. We ...

After an incredibly successful career composing operas, Giachomo Rossini retired suddenly and early. Instead of creating music, it seems he turned his imaginative forces to food, hosting dinner ...

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Sarasota Opera found a way to present live performances of one-act and rarely seen works to keep limited-capacity audiences (and home streaming viewers) ...