Neeme Jarvi conducts Offenbach | Chandos CHSA5160

Neeme Jarvi conducts Offenbach

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHSA5160

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th October 2015

Contents

Artists

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Barbe-bleue
» Overture
Genevieve de Brabant
» Galop
La Belle Helene
» Overture
La Fille du Tambour Major
» Overture
La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein
» Overture
La Vie parisienne
» Overture
Le Mariage aux lanternes (The wedding by lantern-light)
» Overture
Le Voyage dans la Lune
» Ballet des flocons de neige
» Overture
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
» Barcarolle
» Intermede
Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphee aux enfers)
» Overture
Vert-Vert
» Overture

Artists

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

About

Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande explore Offenbach’s effervescent music in this third album of their survey of French orchestral works of the nineteenth century – all recorded in Geneva’s historic Victoria Hall.

From highly successful satirical operettas, e.g. Orphée aux enfers, La Belle Hélène, Barbe-bleue, La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein and La Vie parisienne, to more ambitious works such as Vert-Vert, La Fille du tambour-major, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann, the vividly tuneful overtures on this SACD recording reveal the captivating imagination of this prolific composer, as well as the flourishing theatrical life of Paris in his day.

Although he was born in Germany, it was for Paris (the Bouffes-Parisiens, Palais-Royal, Opéra-Comique, Variétés theatres) that Offenbach composed these works. Their brilliant tunes continue to delight over 130 years after his death.

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