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Rossini: Overtures.(Sound Recording Review)
Rossini: Overtures. Pierino Gamba, London Symphony Orchestra. JVC JVCXR-0229-2.
After JVC's having remastered so many old recordings by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, the first thing I wondered when I learned about this present release of Rossini overtures was why JVC had chosen Pierino Gamba's 1960 recording instead of Reiner's. After all, Reiner's performances of six popular Rossini overtures are among the best ever put to disc, sonically and interpretively. Then I listened to Gamba and remembered.
When Gamba's LP was first released, it went to the top of almost everybody's charts, later continuing to appear on lists of recommendations from Gramophone, Stereo Review, the Penguin Guide, and many more. Although I hadn't heard the album in many years, there was no doubt in my mind about its quality less than two minutes into playing it.
Gamba leads performances of overtures from "The Thieving Magpie," "The Silken Ladder," "The Barber of Seville," "Semiramide," and "William Tell," all of them initially appearing on the Decca label back in the days when Decca engineers were still using a relatively simple three-mike pickup system. Gamba's interpretations are crisp and unfussy, their precision reminding one of Toscanini. While this exactitude does lead to a small degree of coolness compared to the aforementioned Reiner as well as compared to Marriner and the Academy and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, it also brings out detail one may never have noticed before in the works. The opening of "The Thieving ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Rossini: Overtures.(Sound Recording Review)