Dazzling recordings of favourite and less well-known overtures. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 20 January 2014. The Prague Sinfonia Orchestra are on a mission to record all of Rossini’s overtures ...

Abu Hassan, Movements: Overture Howard Griffiths, Conductor WDR Symphony Orchestra Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Euryanthe, Movements: Overture WDR Symphony Orchestra Howard Griffiths, Conductor Carl ...

Many people may remember when on July 4, 1974, The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, gave Americans a rousing rendition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, ...

(Le) Donne Curiose, Movements: Overture Oviedo Filarmonia Friedrich Haider, Conductor (I) Quattro Rusteghi, '(The) Four Ruffians', Movements: Prelude Oviedo Filarmonia Friedrich Haider, Conductor (I) ...

It came as a revelation when, five years ago, David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra - not then regarded as one of the world's prime recording orchestras - completed a cycle of the Beethoven ...

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 ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...