Classical guitarist Alexander-Sergei Ramírez and Sheila Arnold (fortepiano) perform the overture to Eduardo e Christina by Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), arranged by Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) from his Choix de 12 Ouvertures for Guitar and Piano. This comes via Deutsche Grammophon and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). You can also hear this on their 2012 album which you can stream on Spotify.
Great performance by these two artists. Also, it’s wonderful to hear this work on period instruments and the writing clearly gives the guitar room to emerge from the texture at appropriate points. Sometimes in these recording situations the mics are placed to balance the two instruments, but this audience-style mic recording is a more realistic listening experience. When the guitar needs to be heard the piano writing almost drops completely.
