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La gazza ladra: the battery guaranteed to batter one through the back of one’s chair … The allegros are very fast indeed [and] one is open-mouthed to find that the LSO wind players still manage... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: ELQ4803899
Label: Eloquence
Series: Romantic Overtures
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Work length8:50

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1963-12-18
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Verdi: La traviata / Act 1

Work length4:19

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Prelude, Act 1

Track length4:19

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Verdi: La Traviata: Act 3

Work length4:17

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Prelude

Track length4:17

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Excerpt, Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Work length3:27

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Intermezzo sinfonico

Track length3:27

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Mancinelli: Cleopatra

Work length7:53

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length7:53

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Excerpt, Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani

Work length8:41

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length8:41

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Martucci: Notturno

Work length6:38

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Act 3

Work length8:38

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01-09
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Dance of the Hours

Track length8:38

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Black, S: Overture To A Costume Comedy

Work length4:02

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1957-01
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Excerpt, Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Work length11:13

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1955-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture(Recorded 1955)

Track length11:13

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Excerpt, Rossini: Le Siège de Corinthe

Work length9:17

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1955-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length9:17

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Excerpt, Rossini: Tancredi

Work length5:37

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1955-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length5:37

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Excerpt, Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino

Work length4:36

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1955-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length4:36

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Excerpt, Rossini: La Cenerentola

Work length7:40

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1955-09-02
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length7:40

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Excerpt, Rossini: La gazza ladra

Work length8:58

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1960-11-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length8:58

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Excerpt, Rossini: La scala di seta

Work length6:08

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1960-11-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length6:08

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Excerpt, Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Work length7:02

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1960-11-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture (Sinfonia)

Track length7:02

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Excerpt, Rossini: Semiramide

Work length11:17

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1960-11-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length11:17

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Excerpt, Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Work length11:31

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London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba
Recorded: 1960-11-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture(Recorded 1960)

Track length11:31

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During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Decca recorded a number of albums with some of its key conductors of Overtures. Many of these were singled out by the press for their terrific sound quality (the fabled ‘Decca Sound’) and for their often adventurous programming. Some of them also included entr’actes and intermezzi. Prized as collectors’ items, many of the original LPs exchange hands at high prices. And most of these reissues, in Decca Eloquence’s ‘Romantic Overtures’ series appear in CD, in part or whole, for the first time.

Romantic Overtures – Volume 2 showcases the artistry of Piero Gamba, who conducted showpieces for Decca and partnered, among others, Ruggiero Ricci as well as Julius Katchen in his magnificent cycle of the Beethoven Concertos. This 2CD set includes his very first recording for Decca, of Rossini Overtures (1955). Five years later recorded another LP of Rossini Overtures, the only common item being William Tell (the stereo recording is truly thrilling, the record as a whole one of Decca’s best kept secrets!). Both recordings are included here (and both recordings of William Tell). The Egmont Overture was originally coupled with Katchen’s recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto; and also included is all of the LP entitled ‘Adventures in Sound’ which included overtures and intermezzi by Verdi, Mascagni, Mancinelli, Martucci and Ponchielli. A real rarity is Stanley Black’s Overture to a Costume Comedy, recorded at the 1957 ‘Adventures in Sound’ sessions, but only included on a 45rpm EP in mono. This is its first release on CD and in stereo.

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La gazza ladra: the battery guaranteed to batter one through the back of one’s chair … The allegros are very fast indeed [and] one is open-mouthed to find that the LSO wind players still manage to phrase with their natural artistry and the violins at the opening of the allegro in Semiramide have all their repeated notes exactly together … Gamba’s Rossini crescendos are all superbly controlled, and with the vivid stereo recording I cannot imagine anyone failing to find this disc very exciting.

Romantic Overtures - Vol. 2

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