The Best of Rossini

Gioachino Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer whose dazzling operas fused bel canto lyricism with comic timing and theatrical flair. Born in Pesaro and trained in Bologna, he became a sensation in his early twenties with L’italiana in Algeri and Tancredi; The Barber of Seville (1816) and La Cenerentola (1817) sealed his fame and popularized the trademark “Rossini crescendo.” He wrote for the stages of Venice, Naples, and Rome, and for Milan’s La Scala, and from 1824 worked in Paris, where he led the Théâtre-Italien. His final stage work, the grand French opera Guillaume Tell (1829), crowned a meteoric career after which he largely retired from opera. Later years yielded refined sacred and salon music—the Stabat Mater, the Petite messe solennelle, and the witty Péchés de vieillesse—composed amid celebrated Parisian salons with his wife Olympe Pélissier. He died in Passy in 1868, revered as the genial architect of nineteenth-century comic opera.

Tracklist:

00:00:00 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: "Cavatina di Figaro"
Mauro Bonfanti, Filippo Neri

00:04:52 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik

00:13:16 La Scala di Seta: Overture
00:19:53 Tancredi: Overture
00:27:04 La Gazza Ladra: Overture
00:38:32 William Tell: Overture
00:51:40 L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Illenyi

01:00:50 La Pietra del Paragone: "Tancredi"
Capella Cracoviensis, Silvano Frontalini

01:06:53 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: "Una voce poco fa" (Instrumental)
National Moldavian Symphony Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini

01:11:22 Anna Bolena: "Piangete voi"
01:19:09 L'assedio di Corinto: "Giusto ciel, in tal periglio!"
01:25:21 Semiramide: "Bel raggio lusinghier"
Carlo Balzaretti, Chu Tai-Li

01:30:49 Andante e Allegro per flauto e pianoforte
Carlo Balzaretti, Mario Carbotta

01:34:21 Fantasia
Sergio Bosi, Riccardo Bartoli

Messa di Ravenna:
01:43:17 Kyrie
01:50:27 Gloria in excelsis Deo
01:59:42 Laudamus te
02:07:42 Gratias agimus tibi
02:14:32 Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
02:18:30 Cum Sancto Spiritu
02:24:29 Credo in unum Deum
02:27:55 Et incarnatus est
02:34:28 Crucifixus et resurrexit
Josef Homik, Andrzej Szweda, Jerzy Gruszczynski, Silvano Frontalini, Orchestra Sinfonica e Filarmonica Zielonogorski
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