KCUR 89.3 FM

Rossini's galloping overture, Schumann's 'Spring' symphony and Richard Strauss' emotional mountaintop

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...
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ROSSINI Overtures

(La) Scala di seta, '(The) Silken Ladder', Movements: Overture Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Antonio Pappano, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer (Il) Signor Bruschino (or Il figlio per ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

From the Archives - Perspectives on Rossini's 'William Tell' Overture

Brooke Knoll is the digital audience specialist and afternoon host for Classical KC. You can reach her at brooke@classicalkc.org.
NPR

Rossini

A Rossini overture is clarity itself when played by a smaller orchestra like the 45-person Prague Philharmonia. Michel Swierczewski leads the orchestra in the overture from Rossini's opera The Italian ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Sarasota Opera reopens with laughter for masked audiences with Rossini’s rarely seen ‘Silken Ladder’

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Sarasota Opera found a way to present live performances of one-act and rarely seen works to keep limited-capacity audiences (and home streaming viewers) ...
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Rossini Arias & Overtures

Tancredi, Movements: ~ Gioachino Rossini, Composer Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor Orchestre de Chambre de Genève Michael Hofstetter, Conductor Aureliano in Palmira, Movements: Overture Gioachino ...