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 ...

Dazzling recordings of favourite and less well-known overtures. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 20 January 2014. The Prague Sinfonia Orchestra are on a mission to record all of Rossini’s overtures ...

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 ...

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 almost a decade since Pappano took over as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. This disc of Rossini Overtures finds the team at their most ...

William Tell may not be Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera, but it does have at least two tunes that rank among the most familiar music ever composed. Plenty of operas can boast of a single melody ...

As it reaches Volume 3, the brilliant Naxos series of complete Rossini Overtures is increasingly acclaimed and seems now unstoppable in its march towards being not only the finest collection of ...

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 ...

LATE last November I raved about Volume One of a new Naxos project to record all of Rossini's overtures in a four-volume set. The standard of Prague playing with conductor Christian Benda was ...

There's also a bonus in the little-known chamber-scale piece, Andante E Tema Con Variazioni In E-Flat Major. Pappano believes that his orchestra has a 'direct line' to the composer, truly grasping the ...

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 ...