Utmost Care Gioacchino Rossini's 'Bianca e Falliero' - heard by GERALD FENECH 'Antonino Fogliani and his forces respond with zealous enthusiasm, and the ensemble pieces in particular are dispatched with marvelous excitement, soliciting in the listener a strong sense of involvement.'

The Rossini/Naxos series from Wildbad continues unabated with this 2015 recording of one of the composer's least performed works. Bianca e Falliero, unlike other Rossini stage works, took some two years to materialize when others were put on in two months or less. Following the success of La Gazza ladra, La Scala's impresario Angelo Petracchi and Rossini fell out with one another for reasons unknown...

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI

NAXOS

GERMANY