The Best Overtures, Volume 2

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Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Poet and Peasant: Overture
recording of:
Dichter und Bauer: Ouvertüre
composer:
Franz von Suppè (composer)
part of:
Dichter und Bauer
Franz von Suppé9:56
2William Tell: Overture
recording of:
Guillaume Tell : Ouverture
composer:
Gioachino Rossini (composer)
librettist:
Hippolyte Louis-Florent Bis (librettist) and Étienne de Jouy
part of:
Guglielmo Tell (italian version by Calisto Bassi)
part of:
Guillaume Tell
Gioachino Rossini12:49
3Orfeo in the Underworld: Overture
recording of:
Orphée aux enfers : Ouverture
additional composer:
Carl Binder (in 1860)
composer:
Jacques Offenbach (German-French composer, cellist and impresario)
part of:
Orphée aux enfers (opéra féerie in four acts, 1874)
part of:
Orphée aux Enfers (opéra bouffe in two acts, 1858)
part of:
Orpheus in der Unterwelt (opéra-féerie in 4 Akten, 1871)
part of:
Orpheus in the Underworld
Jacques Offenbach10:13
4Jolly Robbers: Overture
recording of:
Banditenstreiche: Ouvertüre
composer:
Franz von Suppè (composer) (in 1867)
part of:
Banditenstreiche
Franz von Suppé6:29
5The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
orchestra:
London Festival Orchestra (Alfred Scholz pseudonym), New Philharmonic Orchestra London (bogus name used on budget releases, not the London Philharmonic or the New Philharmonia), Philharmonia Orchestra (London orchestra, known as New Philharmonia Orchestra from 1964-1976), Philharmonia Orchestra of London (name used on budget releases, not the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia or the New Philharmonia) and Royal Promenade Orchestra
conductor:
Alfred Gehardt (conductor), Vladimir Petroschoff (conductor, an Alfred Scholz pseudonym) and Alfred Scholz
recording of:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Ouvertüre
composer:
Otto Nicolai (composer and conductor)
librettist:
Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
part of:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Otto Nicolai8:47
6Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture
orchestra:
London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra London (name used on budget releases, not the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia or the New Philharmonia), New Philharmonic Orchestra (Alfred Scholz related orchestra used on budget recordings) and Philharmonisches Festspielorchester (an Alfred Scholz pseudonym)
conductor:
Vladimir Petroschoff (conductor, an Alfred Scholz pseudonym), Alfred Scholz and Thomas Waldham
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
GMS (in 1986)
recording of:
Руслан и Людмила: Увертюра
composer:
Mikhail Glinka (Russian composer) (from 1837 until 1842)
part of:
Руслан и Людмила
Михаил Иванович Глинка5:31
7The Beautiful Galatea: Overture
recording of:
Die Schöne Galathée: Ouvertüre
composer:
Franz von Suppè (composer) (in 1865)
part of:
Die Schöne Galathée
Franz von Suppé7:45