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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti
Exciting and vibrant interpretations of Rossini’s overtures, but a collection of works with near identical structures means that the power of the individual pieces Is slightly lost. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
All is performed with that same customary blend of high octane virtuosity, relaxed lyricism, tonal richness and perfection of ensemble which has made the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet not merely one... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2017More…
Release Date:
28th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: CHAN10928
Label: Chandos
Length: 57 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
Twenty-four overtures, plus two sinfonias make a delightful package in such sparkling performances, which eruditely use original orchestrations. The well-known popular overtures stand competition... — Penguin Guide, 2011 editionMore…
Giulini brings out all the brio and variety of Rossini's curtain-openers in this set of 1970s recordings with the Philharmonia: La Scala di Seta dances, The Barber of Seville bustles and sparkles,... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, May 2014More…