Collectors Edition: Rossini;

Here, in a single box-set for the first time are Claudio Abbado's celebrated recordings of four great Rossini comic operas, featuring fine singers and first-rate orchestras and choruses. The booklet includes full synopses in English, German and French. Press reaction to the individual operas: "a very musical, considered, and satisfying performance" (Gramophone); Cenerentola: "a triumph for Abbado and the LSO" (Gramophone); L'italiana: "the most captivating of all recordings of the opera" (The Penguin Guide); Viaggio: "One of the most sparkling and totally successful live opera recordings available" (The Penguin Guide; Gramophone Record of the Year 1986). PLUS a sparkling disc of Rossini overtures with The Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Abbado.