Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Lance Friedel - Great Comedy Overtures (2015) [Hi-Res]

The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country's borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese operetta. Some of the world's most popular comic opera overtures, filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and race-to-the-finish endings, are presented here. They include staples of the concert repertoire such as Hérold's dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid colour of Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Lance Friedel, conductor

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, from 14th to 16th January 2014
Engineered by Phil Rowlands
Produced by Tim Handley

Digitally remastered