The William Tell Overture -Giocchino Rossini -Part I and II

[twitter654]

when i heard this the oboe sounded like playing the godfather theme song

[twitter654]

when i heard this the oboe soundede like playing the godfather theme song

[hkobb7]

You really can't "arrange" such a well-written piece like this for a stringless ensemble. The piece as a whole is far too brash with this group.

[MrStarrmann005]

Terrible

[0wc4]

quality of record ruins it totally.

there almost none low tones, and whole thing sounds extremely unbalanced.

[laViviiii]

My favourite part is from 4:06... love it

[youvinicio]

The exact name is GIOACCHINO

[neildc]

there is nothing wrong how they played the music, it's their own style..

[95thRiflesOCI]

Without strings it doesn't sound good.

[noirvalentin]

lool the brass at 3.28

[musicxchick260]

The orchestral version is much better (but mostly because I'm in orchestra and I've played this), but thanks for sharing this. It was quite interesting to see.

[gregorkrause]

the part at 4:05 is what were familiar with because of the Mickey Mouse short "The Band Concert".

[skitzo429]

those are some extremely out of tune flutes

[noirvalentin]

lol

[madero111]

I think that in the last half of the 20th century people were beginning to get a little bored with all the old string music.

Remember people got tired of the old Baroque music and all those C and F clefs.

I am however a big fan of how Rossini and Wagner used strings. Since early 1900's the newer composers understood how boring the old string stuff was and gave us the 'new mix' for enjoyment.

I too am not particularly< a big Symphony orchestra fan.

Thanx ONLYMENOW i enjoyed this!

[skitzo429]

baroque music had winds...

[musikfric]

I love this arrangement with band it sounds so moch better than the orchestra version!

[carolinetuna]

This is a different key from the orchestra original overture?

[bmwski0507]

The "storm" was way to slow and very boring. The english horn was far to bright. Good work flute, but I was very hard to hear you. Feel that might be the faught of the seating arrangment.

[rmfotj]

What's wrong with sounding bright?

[swissmusicfriend]

we played this too, it's a very difficult overture to play it with emotions...but here are NO emotions...

[zizumia]

o yha

[surfmkstas]

way to go mr. engel!