This concert march does not begin with flourishing trumpets or loud tutti sounds, but opens refreshingly with percussion instruments and the high woodwind section. This original introduction is followed by a broad melodic theme and gradually...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas, he almost completely stopped composing and devoted himself to the culinary arts and the mysteries...