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 ...

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 ...

If there is a familiar template to the structure of most of Rossini’s opera overtures, Antonio Pappano and his Rome orchestra reveal that there is much more than rum-ti-tum routine in their musical ...

(La) Scala di seta, '(The) Silken Ladder', Movements: Overture Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Antonio Pappano, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer (Il) Signor Bruschino (or Il figlio per ...