"Before he arrived, nothing was played that had been written after the turn of the century - it was mostly a matter of Rossini overtures and things of that nature. Fiedler came in and started to ...

Starring in the programme is Gioachino Rossini’s L’ Italiana in Algeri: Overture, a work that premiered in 1813 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice when the composer was just 21 years old.