Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
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Overture from William Tell 1829 [3]
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/23445.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ
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Overture from The Barber of Seville 1816
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/105745.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OloXRhesab0
aria Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_al_factotum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkMuv0Le3ko&feature=related
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Overture/Sinfonia from L'italian in Algieri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) 1813
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/104207.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8LE9fHlB4
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Overture from La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) 1817 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYxfI2Hj7_0
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Sonatas for Strings (string quartets), 1804 [*]
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/23575.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
String Sonata No.1 in G - I. Moderato:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zFiWDJk3Q
Moderato
Andantino
Allegro
String Sonata No. 3 in C - II. Andante:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMj3c2fGB78
Allegro
Andante
Presto
String Sonata No. 4 in B flat major - II. Andante:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmIr9e3s4Y
Allegro vivace
Andante
Allegretto
String Sonata No.6 in D (VI Sonata a quattro in D major/ La Tempesta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcCqEFsEw8A
String Sonata No. 6 in D major - I. Allegro spiritoso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNY7yAeO10
Allegro spiritoso
Andante assai
Allegro (Tempesta)
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aria Di Tanti Palpiti from the opera Tancredi, 1813
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsmQIzxnR8
Andante and variations on 'Di tanti palpiti,' for violin and harp in F, QR vi/1 [1], 1820
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/279286.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
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Variations for clarinet and orchestra, QR vi/57 (Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra from La Donna del lago - "Oh! quante lagrime") [2], 1809
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/145810.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
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Notes:
[*]: 6 Sonate a quattro (Sonatas for Strings, 1804)
This set of quartets had been arranged anonymously into traditional string quartet instrumentation and also existed in a configuration for woodwinds... As it turns out, the original parts (on which the published parts were based) were actually written for the extremely unconventional string quartet form of two violins, a cello, and a double bass.
http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/23575.html#tvf=tracks&tv=about
Wind quartet in in B-flat major (sonata no. 4) - Andante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V4NklxeyKU
Wind quartets in B-flat major & F major (sonata no. 4 & ...) - Andante & Theme with Variations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rma-h0F2uBc
[1]: Arrangement & adaptation on "Di tanti palpiti":
andante and variations on "Di tanti palpiti" arr. for violin & piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynPerhsTpX4
andante and variations on "Di tanti palpiti" for flute & harp:
http://www.kuwo.cn/yinyue/847297/
andante and variations on "Di tanti palpiti" for flute & guitar:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnNTwXjghAQ
Paganini’s violin adaptation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndL5DX_cWkc
[2] QR vi/57:
O quante lacrime - da "La donna del lago"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAoN1mBDPdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRO21ldN_hI
Oh quante lagrime - Otello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztAX4pF8AA
variations in C - Sergio Bosi clarinet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ4q_Q1Ee3E&feature=related
variations in C - Ludmila Peterkova clarinet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54-HGautUoQ
introduction, theme and variations - Sabine Meyer clarinet:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGps7hnYyNk&feature=related
introduction, theme and variations (ko intro) - KNUA clarinet ensemble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JbTGhvsqZc&feature=related
[3] Gioachino Rossini's complete 'William Tell Overture' played by Pete Lashley on guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxIknEONkU
quoted from above the link:
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This version of Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' is from Pete Lashley's 2010 album 'It All Comes Round'. The album is now available on ITUNES.
It was recorded at Stonegate Studios in Bentham, North Yorkshire by Sam Parkinson (www.samesevennotes.co.uk).
Four movements make up Rossini's 'William Tell Overture'. Pete Lashley plays them all on acoustic guitars,sometimes double-tracked and more occasionally triple tracked. It begins with the 'Prelude' - a slow passage originally written by Rossini for the cello. Pete detunes his guitar for the first few notes to try and capture the deeper mood created in the original composition. It's interesting to note that William Tell was a revolutionary against 14th Century Austrian oppression in states of the Swiss confederacy. This deep mood of the prelude, representing dawn over the forbidding mountains, could be seen to represent both a pastoral beauty and the oppressed atmosphere in which the Swiss were forced to live under Austrian dictatorship.
The second movement is the 'Storm'. Up to four layers of acoustic guitars are used in this section by Lashley, all of which are playing their own distinct roles to capture the drama. The gentle bird call heard as the storm abates is sublime. Lashley plucks high pitch notes to emulate Rossini's original flute.
The third movement, Ranz des Vaches (call to the dairy cows), originally featuring the English horn and flute, signifies daybreak. Pete softly picks the guitar to emulate the English horn melody and the higher fluttering flute parts that come in later on in the movement.
The fourth movement and the most well known is the 'Gallop' which Rossini heralded by trumpets and wrote for full orchestra. This segment is often used in popular media to denote galloping horses and became the lone ranger theme music. Lashley uses acoustic guitars again to pick out the melody and high paced rhythm. Pete brings in the cowbell and tambourine to sustain the momentum as the music gallops towards its rousing conclusion.
Perhaps the political connotations of the William Tell overture are hardly surprising given that Rossini was born in Pesaro on the Adriatic coast of Italy in 1792 at a time when revolution was breaking out in nearby France. This revolutionary feeling, a questioning of the old order across Europe, was to at least temporarily rock France and parts of Europe to its core. Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French Revolution and welcomed Napoleon Bonaparte's troops when they arrived in northern Italy. When Austria restored the old regime in 1796, Rossini's father was sent to prison and his mother took him to Bologna where she made a living as a leading singer at various theatres of the Romagna region.
During Rossini's Paris years between 1824 and 1829 he created Guillaume Tell (William Tell). The production in 1829 brought his career as a writer of opera to a close. By this time he had already composed thirty-eight operas. Rossini died in 1868.
The overture is one of the most famous and frequently recorded works in the classical repertoire although the opera itself is rarely heard uncut today as the original score runs for more than four hours!]
* some other adaptations:
Fantasia on Rossini's «Moses in Egypt» by Sigismond Thalberg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLp2-zoKcZ0&feature=related
Variations on a theme from «Moses in Egypt» by Niccolò Paganini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBroLTnbk8
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