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Probably, it was too ahead of its time when it came - in 1982 it was not a success. However, personally I think this is one of the best ABBA songs :)

In some way a pionéer, Rossini frightened railways desperately, after some bad experiences during a journey. This is possibly the inspiration for this funny little work, describing a train accident.

I might have said that Nat King Cole's version is too slow and almost unwilling comic in its emotion. But there is plenty between that one and this version....

So you mean that it normally is sung too low...?

This is not composed to the "Barber", but does also appear in "Torvaldo e Dorliska" from 1815. I wonder if it not also is sung in "La Gazzetta". A typical example of Rossini's "recirculation" of music...

It sounds quite evident to me that the trio belongs to the romantici period, not to the Vienna Classicism. I would have been amusing to see the audience when this was played the first time!

With that voice.... - shouldn't he rather sing the role of Count Luna....?

For some odd reason, probably, this aria reminds me of "I dreamed I dwelled in Marble Halls" from Balfe's "Bohemian Girl"! But isn't the latter a folks tune...?

In fact, I have suspected Haydn to be the father of the "knocking" figure that opens Beethoven's fifth symphony...

10 years older than Rossini, and still surprisingly influenced by the latter...

Jeg har i hvert fall ikke klart å spore den på video eller DVD. Mulig at ingen av distributørene har hatt nok is i magen.:-) Prøvd på filmrull...?

That's how a Rossini opera shall end! :-)

A work of art that would have been "up to date" even if it had been written 20 years later...

Parts of this movement could have been written both 30 and 40 years later, showing how timeless this genius was. Therefore, I can understand you were in doubt about who could have written the piece.

It's not surprising that Beethoven in the 1820s sounds like Mendelssohn. We must expect that had Mozart lived some decades more, he would surely had sounded like Beethoven about 1810. But evidences are very difficult to find...:-)

Very interesting music! It seems that Beethoven has neglected both Mozart and Haydn, and looks directly back to Gluck instead. Which, in fact, turned out to something successful.:-)

The slow movements in Mozart's violin concertos is possibly the most beautiful in the whole concerto repertoire - all solo instruments included...

Highly interesting music. Perhaps Cherubini's fate was that he was a bit to innovative...?

In fact, I often imagine that this could be the second movement of a violin concerto that Mozart didn't live long enough to compose... - Beethoven wrote the romance in 1797/98, which means that the work is from a period when the composer was strongly influenced by his predecessors. It's a very b...

Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi - the three kings. (Sorry, Bellini & Puccini, but....)

And if he had lived 30 or 40 years more, names as Beethoven and Schubert would perhaps not sound that familiar to us...

Hello, LindoroRossini! Without too much work, I was able to trace the string passages at 7:00 - they are from Slooks entrance in "Cambiale di Matrimonio"!

The big question is, even if we - of natural causes - never will get the answer: How would it affect the progress of Beethoven, if Mozart had died in 1831 instead of 1791...? I would not be surprised, if a 60 years old Mozart had written music at the level of Schumann or Brahms... Nevertheless,...

Closely to the end of the movement, we learn where Mendelsohn got inspiration to the introduction to his wedding march!:-)

Just 19 years after "The Magic Flute" - and a completely new world! And Mozart would have been only 56, if alive...

In fact, I think I can trace the Italian operas by Meyerbeer in this very interesting work!:-)

The introduction is of a stunning beauty - it remains me of the second movement of Beethoven's 6th Symphony.

It's difficult not to agree with you. But till now, this role seems to have been sung by such many barytones, that I think that the opera world has changed a bit....

Not a bad interpretation, but I supposed this to be a bass aria....