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Offenbach - Folies symphoniques: Overtures | CPO 5552752

Offenbach - Folies symphoniques: Overtures

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5552752

Barcode: 0761203527526

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd May 2019

Contents

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Ba-ta-clan
» Overture
Genevieve de Brabant
» Entracte (Act 3)
» Overture
L'ile de Tulipatan (The island of Tulipatan)
» Overture
La Creole
» Overture
La Princesse de Trebizonde
» Overture
Le Roi Carotte
» Entracte: L'orage
Les Bavards
» Overture
Les Bergers
» Overture
Les Brigands
» Overture
Madame Favart
» Overture
Monsieur Choufleuri
» Overture
Monsieur et Madame Denis
» Overture

Artists

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

Conductor

Howard Griffiths

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Ba-ta-clan
» Overture
Genevieve de Brabant
» Entracte (Act 3)
» Overture
L'ile de Tulipatan (The island of Tulipatan)
» Overture
La Creole
» Overture
La Princesse de Trebizonde
» Overture
Le Roi Carotte
» Entracte: L'orage
Les Bavards
» Overture
Les Bergers
» Overture
Les Brigands
» Overture
Madame Favart
» Overture
Monsieur Choufleuri
» Overture
Monsieur et Madame Denis
» Overture

Artists

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

Conductor

Howard Griffiths

About

As Adolf Tegtmeier, the alter ego of Jürgen von Manger, knew quite well, overtures exercise an important function in the opera: ‘They begin, you see, right off with the curtain and start by playing all the melodies in a row, everything that happens to come up later. But this is just to give you the chance to familiarize yourself with the music. And of course it’s important … so that later on you don’t get such a big shock.’ The orchestral overtures brought together on the present recording make the listener eager to hear each of the particular works following them. Even those who do not recognize the fine details of their design will enjoy the inexhaustible wealth of their melodies, the irresistible rhythms and lyricisms, and the skilled details of their instrumentation. In their entirety the works on this CD invite us to approach Jacques Offenbach’s sumptuous oeuvre by way of unknown paths on the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth – without having to worry about ‘later getting such a big shock’.

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