Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol 1 / Benda, Prague Sinfonia

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 30, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ROSSINI, GIOACHINO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Prague Philharmonic Choir, Prague Sinfonia Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Benda
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. La gazza ladra: Overture

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    2. Semiramide: Overture

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    3. Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Act I: Sinfonia

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    4. Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia, Act I: Sinfonia

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    5. Le siege de Corinthe: Overture

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    6. Sinfonia, "al Conventello"

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda

    7. Ermione, Act I: Sinfonia - Troia! qual fosti un di!

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Ensemble: Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Prague Sinfonia

      Conductor: Christian Benda


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.