Essential Overtures - Over 2 hours of thrilling overtures (overture highlights only)

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Conductors

• Boult, Adrian
• Davis, Colin
• Gardelli, Lamberto
• Gelmetti, Gianluigi
• Giulini, Carlo Maria
• Heger, Robert
• Jansons, Mariss
• Karajan, Herbert von
• Keilberth, Joseph
• Kempe, Rudolf
• Lanchbery, John
• Litton, Andrew
• Marriner, Sir Neville
• Muti, Riccardo
• Norrington, Roger
• Prêtre, Georges
• Previn, Andre
• Rodzinski, Artur
• Tate, Jeffrey
• Tausky, Vilem
• Willcocks, David

Ensemble

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Composers

• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
• Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895)
• Richard Wagner (Classical) (1813 - 1883)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• Johann Strauss II (Junior) (1825 - 1899)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
• Otto Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (Classical) (1854 - 1921)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857)
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876 - 1948)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

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Rossini, Gioachino : Il barbiere di Siviglia

• Conductor: Carlo Giulini
• Running Time: 7 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1816

Rossini, Gioachino : La scala di seta

• Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti
• Running Time: 5 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1812

Rossini, Gioachino : Guillaume Tell :: Overture

• Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli
• Running Time: 6 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1829

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro :: Overture

• Conductor: Colin Davis
• Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Overture

• Conductor: Colin Davis
• Running Time: 6 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 :: Overture

• Conductor: Colin Davis
• Running Time: 7 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1791

Handel, George Frideric : Messiah :: Overture

• Conductor: David Willcocks
• Running Time: 4 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orfeo ed Euridice :: Overture

• Conductor: Riccardo Muti
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Glinka, Mikhail : Ruslan and Lyudmila :: Overture

• Conductor: Artur Rodzinski
• Running Time: 5 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1837-1842

Smetana, Bedrich : Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), overture to the opera

• Conductor: Rudolf Kempe
• Running Time: 6 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1863-1870

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus

• Conductor: Vilem Tausky
• Notes: Composition written: 1874.
• Running Time: 8 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : Il segreto di Susanna :: Overture

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 12/04/1909

Offenbach, Jacques : Orphée aux enfers :: Overture

• Conductor: Herbert Karajan
• Running Time: 9 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1858

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Egmont, Op. 84 :: Overture

• Conductor: Roger Norrington
• Running Time: 6 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1809-1810

Weber, Carl Maria von : Der Freischütz, overture to the opera

• Conductor: Joseph Keilberth
• Running Time: 9 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1817-1821

Suppé, Franz von : Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry), overture to the operetta

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 7 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1866

Nicolai, Otto : Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor :: Overture

• Conductor: Robert Heger
• Running Time: 4 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Verdi, Giuseppe : La forza del destino :: Overture

• Conductor: Riccardo Muti
• Running Time: 7 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1862

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Act 3. Overture

• Conductor: Mariss Jansons
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Wagner, Richard : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg :: Overture

• Conductor: Adrian Boult
• Running Time: 10 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1862-1867

Humperdinck, Engelbert : Hänsel und Gretel, overture to the opera

• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 8 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Shostakovich, Dmitri : Festive Overture, Op. 96

• Conductor: Andrew Litton
• Notes: Composition written: 1954.
• Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1954

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Overture

• Conductor: Georges Prêtre
• Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1873-1874

Bernstein, Leonard : Candide

• Conductor: Andre Previn
• Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1956

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Sleeping Beauty :: Overture

• Conductor: John Lanchbery
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1888-1889

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : 1812 Overture :: Conclusion

• Conductor: Mariss Jansons
• Running Time: 6 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1880