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Rossini: Overtures

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Earlier reviewers don't seem to have picked up on the special flavor of this CD. Abbado presents Rossini's evergreen overtures with punch, extra speed, lean textures, and mercurial phrasing. This approach is clearly inspired by having a chamber orchestra at his disposal. I'm not sure this ensemble of young musicians is exactly virtuosic, as David Hurwitz claims. Enthusiastic might be a better term. If you want truly virtuosic Rossini, the classic Reiner album from Chicago is unbeatable (RCA), for humor and zest turn to Beecham (part of an EMI two-fer), for boisterousness Bernstein (Sony) or the early Abbado himself from London (RCA). Having said that, this sparklig colleciton is quite nice in its own right.

should be edited, as we now know that he had been suffering from stomach cancer which helps to explain some of the youthful flair that he allegedly lost in recent years.

Accept him for what he has accomplished during his magnificent career. Rossini was one of his specialties.

Enjoy the cd and one of the best conductors of our generation

Para ser Claudio Abbado italiano y uno de los mejores directores de opera en la actualidad, uno esperaría más de este disco. Esta bien pero nada más..

Pssst. Bernstein/New York, Toscanini/NBC

indeed...one only needs to listen to the first five or ten minutes before realizing that the enduring quality of such introspective renditions of the quintessential deliveries of such remarkable interpretations could only mean one thing which would be that if you are still reading this run on sentence..you must really be stoned......