Rossini - Overtures etc

• Binding : Audio CD
• Creator : Gioachino Rossini
• Creator : Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• EAN : 0028944556926
• Label : Deutsche Grammophon
• Manufacturer : Deutsche Grammophon
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.50 inches (Height) x 5.60 inches (Length) x 0.25 pounds (Weight) x 4.60 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Deutsche Grammophon
• Release Date : 1996-07-26
• SKU : 028944556926-
• Studio : Deutsche Grammophon
• UPC : 028944556926

Although there are over three dozen operas to choose from, collections of Rossini overtures usually feature the half dozen "usual suspects", plus one or two rarities to make up playing time. The present disc is slightly different: true, there's the evergreen Barber of Seville and sparkling Italiana in Algeri, but no William Tell or Thieving Magpie. You do get the melodious Tancredi overture and unusual Turco in Italia--much more a foretaste of the opera than is customary. Add the short but witty Silken Ladder and Signor Bruschino curtain-raisers, plus the virtually unknown Inganno felice and Cambiale di matrimonio, both worth reviving, and you've got a refreshingly different cross-section. There's also the rarely-heard Introduction, Theme and Variations, featuring the ingratiating tones of Charles Neidich's clarinet. As on all their discs, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play without a conductor, but the results lack nothing in verve or suavity. So put the war-horses out to grass for once, and give their well-planned selection a go. --Richard Whitehouse

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Tancredi
  • 2: L'italiana in Algeri
  • 3: L'inganno felice
  • 4: La scala di seta
  • 5: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  • 6: Il Signor Bruschino
  • 7: La cambiale di matrimonio
  • 8: Il turco in Italia
  • 9: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Andante (sostenuto
  • 10: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Tema (Allegretto)
  • 11: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Var - I Piu mosso
  • 12: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Var - II
  • 13: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Var - III
  • 14: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Var - IV: Largo minore - Piu mosso - A tempo
  • 15: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major: Var - V: Maggiore

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