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50 Best Overtures

by Various Artists
50 SONGS
May 2012
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Carlo Maria Giulini
La scala di seta: Sinfonia (Allegro - Andantino - Allegro)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Gianluigi Gelmetti
Tancredi: Sinfonia (Moderato - Allegro brillante)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Gianluigi Gelmetti
L'italiana in Algeri: Sinfonia (Andante - Allegro)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Gianluigi Gelmetti
Il signor Bruschino: Overture
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Guillaume Tell: Overture (Andante - Allegro)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Gianluigi Gelmetti
Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Ouvertüre
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
Così fan tutte, K. 588: Overture (Andante - Presto)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
Don Giovanni, K. 527: Overture (Andante - Molto allegro)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
L'elisir d'amore: Preludio
Francesco Molinari Pradelli
I puritani: Sinfonia
Philharmonia Orchestra & Riccardo Muti
Il segreto di Susanna: Overture. Vivacissimo
Sir Neville Marriner
I quatro rusteghi: Prelude. Tranquillo, semplice
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture (Presto)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Artur Rodzinski
The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Miniature Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra & John Lanchbery
Die verkaufte Braut: Öffnung
Rudolf Kempe
Donna Diana: Overture (Sehr gehalten - Rasch)
Rudolf Kempe/Wiener Philharmoniker
La forza del destino, Act 1: Sinfonia
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Luisa Miller: Sinfonia (Allegro)
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Nabucco: Overture to Act 1
Riccardo Muti
Un ballo in maschera: Preludio. Allegro assai moderato
Riccardo Muti
Macbeth, Act 1: Preludio
Riccardo Muti
La Traviata: Prelude to Act 1
Philharmonia Orchestra & Riccardo Muti
Ernani: Preludio (Adagio)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Riccardo Muti
Aïda: Preludio (Andante mosso)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Tullio Serafin
Rigoletto, Act 1: Prelude
Julius Rudel
I vespri siciliani: Sinfonia (Largo - Allegro agitato - Prestissimo)
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Carmen: Prélude
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris/Georges Prêtre
Mignon: Ouverture (Andantino - Molto sostenuto - Andante - Tempo di Polacca
Berislav Klobucar/Berliner Symphoniker
Faust, Act 1: Introduction
Georges Prêtre
L'étoile: Ouverture
John Eliot Gardiner
La Vie parisienne: Introduction (Allegro marziale)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Louis Frémaux
Orphée aux enfers: Ouverture (Allegro con fuoco - Allegretto - Lento - Allegro vivace - Andante - Allegro)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Herbert von Karajan
Hänsel und Gretel, EHWV 93/3: Prelude (Ruhige, nicht zu langsame Bewegung - Munter)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Jeffrey Tate
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
Emmanuelle Haïm & Le Concert d'Astrée
Alcina, HWV 34, Act 1, Scene 2: Coro. "Questo è il cielo de' contenti" - Gavotte - Sarabande - Menuet & Gavotte (Chorus) [feat. Opera Stage Chorus]
Richard Hickox
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: Sinfonia
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & David Willcocks
Fidelio, Op. 72: Overture
Sir Simon Rattle
Der Freischütz, Op. 77, J. 277: Ouverture (Adagio - Molto vivace)
Elisabeth Grümmer/Berliner Philharmoniker/Joseph Keilberth
Euryanthe, Op. 81, J. 291: Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Leichte Kavallerie: Overture
Sir Neville Marriner
Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien: Overture
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Dichter und Bauer: Overture
Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture (Andantino moderato - Allegro vivace)
Robert Heger
Die Fledermaus: Overture (Allegro vivace - Allegretto - Tempo di Valse - Allegro)
Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus/Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra/Vilem Tausky
Der Zigeunerbaron: Overture (Allegro moderato - Lento - Andantino - Allegretto moderato - Più allegro - Tempo di Valse - Allegro moderato)
Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus/John Barker/Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra/Vilem Tausky
Der fliegende Holländer: Overture
London Classical Players & Sir Roger Norrington
Die Walküre, Act 3: Ride of the Valkyries
Mariss Jansons
Lohengrin, Act III: Prelude
Mariss Jansons
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, Act 1: Prelude (Sehr mässig bewegt)
Sir Adrian Boult