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Les Sylphides and La Boutique fantasque originated from commissions by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes after World War I. Based on an assortment of Chopin piano works,
Roger Norrington’s disc of Rossini Overtures with the London Classical Players is highly entertaining, bringing performances of great energy and interest. This Virgin disc presents
The title role of Rossini’s Otello, like Verdi’s, was composed for tenor. Of course, the types of tenors are worlds apart: Verdi’s Otello is a
While the CD booklet for this release offers a detailed appreciation of Pierre Monteux’s long and historically important career, it’s unfortunate that these broadcast performances
Rossini had composed so much music and had heard so much singing by 1829 that he simply gave up composing for the stage altogether. But
This late work of Rossini’s is a little masterpiece. Composed for the consecration of a private chapel in 1863/64, its forces are small–four solo singers,
Described by Rossini as “the last mortal sin of my old age,” this wonderful late work is hardly “petite”. Although Rossini employs small (and unusual)
Here we have an unnecessary recording of Rossini’s almost indestructible bauble taped live at La Scala in l964, in decent sound. Gabriele Santini leads a
Joan Sutherland recorded this role commercially for Decca two years before this 1968 Roman RAI broadcast; nonetheless, she is more convincing and in slightly spryer
This recording of Guglielmo Tell (a somewhat cut, Italian translation of Guillaume Tell, Rossini’s last opera, composed for Paris) has been around in many forms
