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Zweiter Akt = Act Two = Deuxième Acte

This 2007 recording features cellist Anner Bylsma with Concerto Amsterdam and violinist Jaap Schröder

Doch Er Soll Erst Wissen" (Pizzaro

The ECM production is characteristically pristine

zelmira 2xcd album box sli Surf Zweiter Akt = Act TwoRossini's Zelmira is one of his last operas, and this 1990 Erato recording captures it with a stellar cast including soprano Cecilia Gasdia and tenor Chris Merritt. Conducted by Claudio Scimone with I Solisti Veneti, the performance brings clarity and elegance to Rossini's complex score. Zelmira is a work of considerable dramatic ambitionfull of Rossini's characteristic melodic invention but with darker, more serious undertones than some of his