This is a very entertaining CD of Rossini operatic overtures. A number of these overtures are performed fairly often on concert stage and one of them, the famous William Tell overture, has actually become part of popular culture. The distinguishing feature of this CD is the effort to produce nonanachronistic versions of the music. These performances use scores either derived from Rossini's original autograph manuscripts or reconstructed by scholars from early performance versions of these works. Scores used commonly in the recent past are thought to have a lot of 19th century accretions different from Rossini's original orchestration. The London Classical Players use period instruments and aim for a performance style typical of the early 19th century.