Piero Gamba - Rossini: Overtures (1960) [2018] Hi-Res

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as
sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His
best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of
Seville) and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and
Guillaume Tell. A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his
scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart."
According to the Oxford History of Western Music, "Rossini's fame surpassed that of any
previous composer, and so, for a long time, did the popularity of his works. Audiences
took to his music as if to an intoxicating drug -- or, to put it more decorously, to
champagne, with which Rossini's bubbly music was constantly compared. Rossini took
existing operatic genres and forms and perfected them in his own style. Through his own
work, as well as through that of his followers and imitators, Rossini's style dominated
Italian opera throughout the first half of the 19th Century.

Tracks:

1 La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) 8:57
2 La Scala Di Seta (The Silken Ladder) 6:03
3 Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (The Barber Of Seville) 6:58
4 Semiramide 11:12
5 Guglielmo Tell (William Tell) 11:35

Personnel:

London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba