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 ...
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 ...
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 ...