Sunday Classics flashback: Catching up on our overtures

To compensate for our Forza del destino Overture deficit last week, Erich Leinsdorf herewith does the honors.

VERDI: La Forza del destino: Overture

Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, cond. EMI, recorded c1958

by Ken

In the thick of combat last Sunday with Verdi's epic masterpiece La Forza del destino, I realized belatedly that I had broken a Sunday Classics tradition by not including a reminder of how the piece announces itself in the form of a performance of the Overture. Oh, we'd had two fine performances of it in the Friday night preview, but not after. By way of compensation here it is again, in a performance I didn't have on CD at the time. And then we've got some more overtures in the click-through.


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