Pentatone Exclusive

Rossini Overtures

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

17,9934,49
Clear
Original Recording Format: DSD 64
Quality and Channels Help

From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini’s overtures have enjoyed the status of colourful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and exciting rhythmic drive, these overtures encapsulate all that was modern, exhilarating and electrifying in Rossini’s music, yet maintain their freshness and attraction to modern audiences.

This album features a collection of Rossini overtures, taken from less well-known operas such as La Scala di seta, Tancredi, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran and Semiramide, as well as from the classic comic operas L’italiana in Algeri and Il barbiere di Siviglia, concluding with the preludes to Rossini’s French operas Le siege de Corinthe and Guillaume Tell, in which the composer explored musical Romanticism.

The overtures are performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, which has played a seminal role in the Rossini renaissance of the last three decades. The orchestra is led by its Musical Director Michele Mariotti. Being born in Rossini’s native town Pesaro, Mariotti cherishes a life-long affinity with the city’s most famous son and is commonly considered as one of the outstanding Rossini conductors of his age. He frequently works with the world’s most prestigious opera houses.

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Conducted by Michele Mariotti

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
La scala di seta - Overture
06:00
2.
Tancredi - Overture
06:05
3.
L'italiana in Algeri - Overture
08:14
4.
Il barbiere di Siviglia - Overture
06:57
5.
La gazza ladra - Overture
09:55
6.
Matilde di Shabran - Overture
09:44
7.
Semiramide - Overture
12:38
8.
Le siege de Corinthe - Overture
09:40
9.
Guillaume Tell - Overture
12:11

Total time: 01:21:24

Additional information

Label

SKU

PTC5186719

Qualities

, , , , , ,

Channels

, ,

Artists

Composers

Genres

,

Notes

NativeDSD selectively creates higher DSD bitrates of label's releases using two methods (Merging Technologies Album Publishing and Singnalyst HQPlayer Pro), depending on the original edited master source. In order to understand the processes, a bit of background is appropriate.   NativeDSD sells only recordings that were originally recorded in DSD or DXD (352.8KHz PCM). The overwhelming majority of these recordings were edited and post processed in DXD, then converted (modulated) into DSD deliverable bit rates. NativeDSD acquires the label's original DXD edited master, and using Merging Technologies Album Publishing, creates a first generation DSD64, DSD128, and DSD256, as well as a DXD FLAC deliverable.  Additionally, on selected recordings, a 32bit PCM WAV file is extracted (the DXD PCM FLAC is 24 bits by format definition), and uses it to modulate a DSD512 using HQPlayer Pro. The exception to the above are the few label recordings (Yarlung, Eudora, Just Listen etc.) that record in DSD, and do no PCM post processing mixing, level balancing, EQ etc. That's doable by restricting post processing to just editing, where only the edit transition interval (typically 100ms or less) is PCM converted, leaving the DSD music content unaltered when rendered. For those recordings, the DSD edited master (the actual recording master with edits) is used with HQPlayer Pro to re-modulate the missing DSD bitrates. Why do any of this? It's to provide a DSD bitrate deliverable choice, allowing a customer to purchase the highest DSD bitrate their DAC will support. It's correct that there's no additional music content information contained in the higher DSD bit rate from the original DSD bitrate. What's different is the uncorrelated modulation noise content placement in the frequency spectrum. When a DSD original file is converted to DXD (PCM), the inherent DSD modulation noise is removed through the decimation filtering, and re-inserted when modulated back to DSD. The modulation noise (again, uncorrelated) is the carrier part of the DSD bitstream modulation, and an inherent part of the DSD bit stream.

 

While the spectorial shape is the same regardless of the DSD bitrate, it's effective start and end points move an octave higher for every doubling of the DSD bitrate. For DSD64, the uncorrelated modulation noise is about -110dB at 20KHz, rising to about -50dB at 100KHz. For DSD512, the modulation noise is about -110dB at 160KHz, and -50dB at 800KHz. What this allows is for the customer's DAC to use gentler, more Gaussian shaped reconstruction filters, with far improved phase response.

 

Conductors

Instruments

Original Recording Format

Producer

Erdo Groot

Recording Engineer

Jean-Marie Geijsen

Recording location

This album was recorded at the library of the Convento San Domenico in Bologna, Italy in May 2018.

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD 64

Release DateNovember 16, 2018

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.

Pentatone 393 albums

More from this label

Pentatone Exclusive

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 3,4 & 5

Arabella Steinbacher, Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Pentatone Exclusive

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11

Russian National Orchestra

Pentatone Exclusive

Peter and the Wolf

Russian National Orchestra

Pentatone Exclusive

The Fascinating George Gershwin

George Pieterson, Gregor Horsch, Henk Rubingh and 4 more

Currency
Cart