"In a new recording with the agile Coro Ghislieri, conductor Giulio Prandi has used a new critical edition, recorded for the first time. The pianos and harmonium (played by Francesco Corti, Cristiano Gaudio and Daniel Perer) date from the 19th century, colouring the sound, sharpening contours, lightening the textures ... This performance brings out the idiosyncratic variety of Rossini's music, at once operatic, sacred and quirky".