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 ...

Any self-respecting music-lover will have at least two or three of Rossini's Overtures in their collections. The best-known of them, including The Barber Of Seville and The Thieving Magpie, are so ...

Hard to believe the brilliant Naxos survey of Rossini's complete Overtures has reached Volume Four. It seems no time since it was launched, to great excitement on this page. Indeed, it's only four ...

I have spent a considerable amount of time in the last fortnight listening to and being ceaselessly exhilarated by a new CD of overtures. They are all by Rossini and the CD will be reviewed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ravinia`s 200th birthday bash for Gioacchino Rossini on Sunday evening spoke with a decidedly American accent. Of the performers presenting arias, ensembles and overtures from various Rossini operas, ...