Meyerbeer - Overtures and Entr’actes from the French Operas | Naxos 8573195

Meyerbeer - Overtures and Entr’actes from the French Operas

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573195

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th April 2014

Contents

Works

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Dinorah
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 3
» Overture
L'Africaine
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 3
» Entr'acte to Act 5
» Grand scene du mancenillier (Act 5)
» Overture
L'Etoile du nord
» Overture
Le Prophete
» Coronation March (Act 4)
» Overture
Les Huguenots
» Ballet (Act 5)
» Bonheur de la table (Drinking song) (Act 1)
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 5
» Overture
Robert le diable (Robert the Devil)
» Overture

Artists

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Darrell Ang

Works

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Dinorah
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 3
» Overture
L'Africaine
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 3
» Entr'acte to Act 5
» Grand scene du mancenillier (Act 5)
» Overture
L'Etoile du nord
» Overture
Le Prophete
» Coronation March (Act 4)
» Overture
Les Huguenots
» Ballet (Act 5)
» Bonheur de la table (Drinking song) (Act 1)
» Entr'acte to Act 2
» Entr'acte to Act 5
» Overture
Robert le diable (Robert the Devil)
» Overture

Artists

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Darrell Ang

About

Giacomo Meyerbeer’s eminence as an operatic composer was such that the works he wrote for the Paris Opéra between 1831 and 1865 – Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, L’Africaine and Le Prophète – were among the most spectacular and popular, well into the twentieth century.

These overtures and orchestral pieces illustrate the power of Meyerbeer’s writing, his sense of drama, his orchestral colouring, and his melodic beauty. L’Etoile du Nord and Dinorah, written for the Opéra Comique, are lighter in tone, but notable for their programmatic inventiveness.

Darrell Ang’s triumph at the 50th Besançon International Young Conductor’s Competition, where he took all three top awards – Grand Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize – launched his international career, leading to the music directorship of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne and numerous guest conducting engagements with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano ‘Giuseppe Verdi’, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among others.

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