LVIII. ROSSINI, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La Gazza Ladra (Overture) (1817)
Mannheimer Philharmoniker
Boian Videnoff, cond.
(9:38)
Funny how a great filmmaker like Stanley Kubrick can turn a 19th-century piece into an earworm! At least in my case, this music will always conjure up an image of the disturbing rape scene in A Clockwork Orange.
But Rossini wrote a ton of music. And he wrote quickly:
"A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that the conductor of the premiere performance locked him in a room at the top of La Scala the day before the premiere with orders to complete the opera's still unfinished overture. He was under the guard of four stagehands whose job it was to toss each completed page out the window to the copyist below." [Wikipedia]
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