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Rossini: Six Sonatas for Strings / Scimone, I Solisti Veneti / Composer: Gioachino Rossini / Orchestra/Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti / Composer: Gioachino Rossini This is a reissue of an Erato disk from 1988. Even if the young Rossini was nicknamed "il tedeschino" ("the little German"), these six sonatas, composed in three days, at the age of twelve, are only very very loosely inspired to Haydn or Mozart. In 1804, Rossini had not yet received a formal music education, therefore these fresh works can be considered the instinctive production of a precocious genius.

SYMPHONY NO.7, 'LENINGRAD'

PRELUDE OP.28, ETUDE 10&25

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Rossini: IL Barbier Di Sivigia (highlights) Performer: Ra�l Gim�nez (Tenor), H�kan Hageg�rd (Baritone), Alessandro Corbelli (Baritone), Jennifer Larmore (Mezzo Soprano), Barbara Frittoli (Soprano), Samuel Ramey (Bass) Conductor: Jes�s Lopez-Cobos Orchestra/Ensemble: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra Written: 1816; Italy The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de S�ville (1775). The premi�re of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione) took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome. Rossini's Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". Even after two hundred years, it's popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.

SYMPHONY NO. 3,5,8

This is one of four special APEX releases of (mostly) music from Hungary performed by Hungarian artists.

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Russian Favorites: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on the Bear Mountain / Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio espagnol / Borodin - Glinka / Orchestra/Ensemble: Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Alain Lombard