Скачать или смотреть La Gazza Ladra (Opera) by Gioachino Rossini - Overture

This brilliant, rousing overture is very.. very famous: Stanley Kubrick used it to great effect in one of the fight scenes in "A clockwork Orange".

La "Gazza Ladra" is an "opera semiseria. A drama with a happy ending, in which a innocent victim, unjustly condemned, should be saved from the scaffold at the eleventh hous and the rascal persecutor punished. The social setting of these operas always delt with a conflict between a feudal aristocracy ( that is replaced by arrogant welders of power) and a world of humble people. Known as "The Thieving Magpie" in English, La Gazza Ladra's overture neatly melds episodic colour with the weightier drama of symphonic sonata form. It features a parade of effects and lovely themes, including an especially famous one introduced by an oboe, that anticipates the characters and action to come, and then, following a spectacular crescendo, reworkd several of these themes in a mini*development section.