VA - Entre nous: Celebrating Offenbach (2021)

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Entre nous: Celebrating Offenbach
Year Of Release: 2007 / 2021
Label: Opera Rara
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 2:33:59
Total Size: 746 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01 David Parry - Le Voyage dans la lune
02 Cassandre Berthon - Genevieve de Brabant: Rondo du pate
03 Alexandra Sherman - La Jolie Parfumeuse: "Je peins, je crayonne"
04 Mark Stone - La Jolie Parfumeuse: "Pardieu!"
05 Laura Claycomb - La Jolie Parfumeuse: Air de Polacca
06 André Cognet - Le Pont des soupirs: "Ah! Le Doge!"
07 Mark Le Brocq - Les Braconniers: "Oh! Ma chere femme"
08 Yvonne Kenny - La Permission de dix heures: "Ah! Quelle douce ivresse!"
09 Mark Stone - La Permission de dix heures: "Allons!"
10 Yvonne Kenny - Vert-Vert: Oraison Funebre
11 Mark Stone - Les Deux Pêcheurs: Ballade de Castilbeta
12 Yvonne Kenny - La Creole: "J'avais bien vu"
13 Laura Claycomb - Monsieur et Madame Denis: La Chaconne
14 Elizabeth Vidal - Le Voyage dans la lune: Ariette de la Princesse
15 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Le Voyage dans la lune: Final de la neige
16 Yvonne Kenny - Belle Lurette: "Ce fut a Londres"
17 André Cognet - Belle Lurette: "Belle Lurette a des beaux yeux"
18 Diana Montague - La Diva: "L'air, disait-il"
19 Mark Wilde - La Diva: "Tu la connais"
20 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - La Diva: Finale
21 Mark Le Brocq - Les Bergers: "En attendant l'hymen"
22 Colin Lee - Les Bergers: "Reconnais-tu la voix"
23 Yvonne Kenny - Le Voyage dans la lune: "Je regarde vos jolis yeux"
24 Jennifer Larmore - Le Voyage dans la lune: "Ohe! Ohe!"
25 Colin Lee - La Rose de Saint-Flour: "Chette marmite neuve"
26 Alastair Miles - Boule de neige: Conspiration des guitares
27 Loic Felix - L'Ile de Tulipatan: Couplets de Canard
28 Cassandre Berthon - La Boulangere a des ecus: "Ce qu' j'ai"
29 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - La Boulangere a des ecus: "Ah! Qu'il est beau"
30 Colin Lee - Une nuit blanche: "Allons, Fanchette... Aimons le vin"
31 Mark Le Brocq - Il Signor Fagotto: "Nous voila seuls"
32 Alexandra Sherman - La Creole: Berceuse
33 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Maitre Peronilla: Couplets des petits valets
34 Yvonne Kenny - Le Fifre enchanté ou Le Soldat magicien: "Oui! ce fifre"
35 Laura Claycomb - Le Fifre enchante ou Le Soldat magicien: "Ah! Pour moi"
36 Jennifer Larmore - Le Chateau a Toto: "Va-t'en donc"
37 Jennifer Larmore - Le Chateau a Toto: "Entre nous"
38 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Le Roi Carotte: Ronde des Chemins de fer
39 Colin Lee - Vert-Vert: Barcarolle
40 Alastair Miles - Boule de neige: Choeur du lunch et Brindisi
41 Geoffrey Mitchell Choir - Belle Lurette: Ronde et ensemble

Entre Nous: Celebrating Offenbach traces the extraordinary career of one of the great personalities of the 19th century, the composer, entrepreneur and satirist Jacques Offenbach. He composed over 100 stage works, yet only a fraction of Offenbach’s output is regularly performed today. This brand new recording of rare arias, duets and ensembles, selected by the late Patric Schmid, assembles some of the finest moments from Offenbach’s forgotten works, performed by an impressive group of international stars.Offenbach’s composing life was driven in part by a desire for commercial success and he opened his first theatre, the Bouffes-Parisiens, in 1855 with a mission to revive the art of high-quality comic opera. However, the notorious jester who spent so much time poking fun at the leading figures of his day longed to be taken seriously by the musical establishment.Offenbach pinned great hopes on his works for the Opéra-Comique, including the delightful Vert-Vert, which brought him closer to his ‘serious’ style. Along the way there is much Offenbachian charm and wit. Listeners will discover the once wildly popular Geneviève de Brabant, the risqué La Jolie Parfumeuse, and Le Roi Carotte (where Prince Fridolin’s kingdom is taken over by vegetables!) and see the personalities of Offenbach’s world coming alive (including Hortense Schneider, whose life-story is dramatised in the preposterous La Diva!).The recording comprises brand new editions created by Jean-Christoph Keck and the 2 CD set is accompanied by a 240 page booklet containing notes and texts for each excerpt by Offenbach devotee, Nicholas Jenkins.

‘Every track here is the stuff of genius, and you are left wondering why on earth such works as La Diva, Le Voyage dans la Lune and Belle Lurette disappeared from view after their premieres. Outstanding, very funny and unmissable.’ – Tim Ashley, The Guardian

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