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The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.
All compositions by Gioachino Rossini with additional material by Mike Westbrook William Tell Overture II – 5:53; William Tell Overture III – 2:10; The Thieving Magpie Overture – 3:24; L' Amoroso E Sincero Lindoro – 20:40; William Tell Overture IV – 4:05; The Barber of Seville Overture – 9:23; Thiev-ish Magpie – 9:01; William Tell ...
Westbrook-Rossini is an album by Mike Westbrook, ... "William Tell Overture III" – 2:43 "The Thieving Magpie Overture" – 1:46 "L' Amoroso E Sincero Lindoro" – 17:14
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) - 6:37; Overture to L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) - 8:35; Overture to Semiramide - 13:11; Overture to Il signor Bruschino - 04:55; Overture to La cenerentola (Cinderella) - 8:30; Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) - 10:17; Overture to Guillaume Tell (William ...
In "Contorno", the fifth episode of season 3 of Hannibal (2015), the same section of Gioachino Rossini's The Thieving Magpie (as used in A Clockwork Orange) was played on a record player during a fight between Jack Crawford and Hannibal Lecter in Florence, Italy.