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Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

La cenerentola (Cinderella)

Conductor: Benda, Christian

Prague Sinfonia

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Year of Production: Sept. 2011

Playing Time: 00:07:51

Catalogue Number: NVF0108

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Rossini is said to have written the La Cenerentola in three weeks. The overture, borrowed from the recently composed La gazzetta, is a popular concert item. It opens with an introductory Maestoso, leading, as expected, to an Allegro vivace, its second theme introduced by the clarinet, to return in recapitulation with piccolo and bassoon. The movement largely follows Rossini's usual practice, a modified use of sonata-form, a slow introduction, an Allegro with two contrasting themes, the second usually entrusted to wind instruments, a recapitulation and a coda.