Gabrielli & Bernardi Play Overture from Tancredi by Rossini

ByBradford Werner
2023

Saverio Gabrielli (violin) and Lorenzo Bernardi (guitar) perform the Overture from Tancredi by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), arranged by Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) from his Choix de 12 Ouvertures de la Composition de Rossini arrangées pour Guitare et Violon. This comes via Bernardi’s YouTube channel. Wonderful performance and really breathing life and excitement into the Carulli arrangement. Here’s what Bernardi mentions via his YouTube:

Gioachino Rossini’s opera Tancredi sees its first performance on 6 February 1813 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The typical characteristics of Rossini’s music are well represented here: the extreme rhythmic brilliance, liveliness, freshness and at the same time the elegance of the Italian bel canto. The opening overture, performed here in a captivating arrangement for violin and guitar by Ferdinando Carulli, well summarizes these Rossinian peculiarities.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.