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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Rossini overture is clarity itself when played by a smaller orchestra like the 45-person Prague Philharmonia. Michel Swierczewski leads the orchestra in the overture from Rossini's opera The Italian ...
Conductor Ruth Reinhardt, center, is introduced with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra before leading Rossini's Barber of Seville Overture in a ReMix concert Friday evening, March 2, 2018 at Moody ...
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 ...