Sentence examples for two overtures from inspiring English sources

The BBC Legends recording also offers lithe accounts of two overtures and the "Marche Troyenne".

As a preview of coming Met attractions, it opened with two overtures based on music from "Benvenuto Cellini," including "Carnaval Romain".

He emphasises Schumann's lyricism at the expense of his weightier moments, and though the playing is buoyant, this underplays the strength of the two overtures.

To help narrow the field, I laid down a few guidelines: no operas, as they have their own narrative already (though one or two overtures have crept in).

Here, as part of a welcome three-week minifestival of Mendelssohn, Mr. Masur leads the orchestra in the same symphony, two overtures and the Violin Concerto, with Sheryl Staples, the Philharmonic's superb principal associate concertmaster, as soloist.

He wrote in his Mémoires (1870) how unproductive he was after the rich output of the Paris years, which had brought forth an oratorio, numerous cantatas, two dozen songs, a mass, part of an opera, two overtures, a fantasia on Shakespeare's Tempest, and eight scenes from Goethe's Faust, as well as the Symphonie fantastique.

Mr. Langrée opened with Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 2, one of four overtures he composed for prospective new productions of this opera, eventually retitled "Fidelio".

All three overtures were made before the club entered into serious contract negotiations with Jackson, said the person close to Riley.

Throw in standbys like the "Va, pensiero" chorus from Verdi's "Nabucco," Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" (Ms. Gallardo-Domas), and four overtures, including the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger," plus a couple of encores by Mr. Terfel, including "Some Enchanted Evening," and you had a pretty full program.

All three overtures were arranged by the show's orchestrator, Robert Russell Bennett, who orchestrated most of Kern's later shows.

"One Overture" was one of four contemporary works on the second half of the bill.