This is a capable but unexciting recording of Rossini's one-act farce Il signor Bruschino. The opera itself is not the composer's strongest work, forever upstaged by its notorious overture, in which the violins tap rhythmically on their music stands with the backs of their bows -- an eyebrow-raising gag in its day. Nevertheless, the piece is ...
Does one rely too much on the benefit of hindsight to say that these quartets by the 12-year-old Rossini show signs of his operatic personality? Rossini himself certainly didn't find such signs; he disparaged and ridiculed these early efforts. He wrote in the margin of the manuscript (which somehow ended up in the Library of Congress in Washington ...
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