Word: rossini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), an ebullient, easygoing man, wrote 39 operas, and stopped at the age of 37 with the explanation that he was "too lazy" to compose any more. Because his operas have a reputation for being hopelessly oldfashioned, and because most of them are excruciatingly difficult for modern singers, little but his bubbling Barber of Seville and the galloping overture to William Tell* get much of a hearing today. But last week Florence's Maggio (May) Musicale ended a cycle of six Rossini operas in as many weeks, won bravos from audiences and critics...
Conductor Tullio Serafin was pretty pleased too: Rossini might be difficult, but he was worth the difficulty. Said Serafin: "Rossini is the billionaire of musical ideas...
...these were extremes; the more substantial numbers on the program included Enesco's. Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on "Greensleeves," and Sibelius' Finlandia (the last complete with the popping of champagne corks during the dramatic pauses of the opening section). Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) showed off the orchestra's first-rate woodwind section. And an arrangement of Cry proved to be a hilarious satire, with quotations from several symphonic works, imitations of whimpering by the trumpets and growling by the horns, and a most realistic baby cry--by a member...
...Lions began to-roll as Johnson, Reiss and Brandt started to find the range. With five minutes to play, Columbia led, 60 to 39, and Coach Lou Rossini substitute da flock of reserves...