ROSSINI: Complete Overtures vol.1

Benda, Christian;
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

NBD 0028

Rossini composed some of the most masterful and most ravishing operas in music history. In the overtures it is always clearly revealed his talent for both comedy and tragic forms, accompanied by a great passion for the detailed Portraying his characters.

"La gazza ladra" (The Thieving Magpie) is perhaps the most famous and one of the most popular entrance pieces worldwide. In "Otello" rossini impresses with an even more complex musical expression and "Le siège de Corinthe" (The Siege of Corinth) draws through a sound language full of drama and Richness of colour.

In the overture to "Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra" (Elizabeth, Queen of England), which one year later also became the Opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville), the following especially beautiful the typical recognize compositional patterns, with to whom Rossini so successfully Opera evenings opened. The present Recording is the first of four that will present his complete overtures.

Blu-ray audio

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

25-04-2013

0730099002868