Offenbach - Melodies
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95641
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th January 2018
Contents
Works
Dors mon enfantDoux menestrel
J'aime la reverie
Jalousie!
Jeanne la rousse
L'Etoile
La Croix de ma mere
Meuniere et fermiere
O bleib bei mir
Rends-moi mon ame!
Ronde tyrolienne
Serenade du torero
Was fliesset auf dem Felde
Wenn ich ein muntres Voglein war
Artists
Mariam Sarkissian (mezzo‐soprano)Fanny Crouet (soprano)
Daniel Propper (piano)
Julian Milkis (clarinet)
Levon Arakelyan (cello)
Works
Dors mon enfantDoux menestrel
J'aime la reverie
Jalousie!
Jeanne la rousse
L'Etoile
La Croix de ma mere
Meuniere et fermiere
O bleib bei mir
Rends-moi mon ame!
Ronde tyrolienne
Serenade du torero
Was fliesset auf dem Felde
Wenn ich ein muntres Voglein war
Artists
Mariam Sarkissian (mezzo‐soprano)Fanny Crouet (soprano)
Daniel Propper (piano)
Julian Milkis (clarinet)
Levon Arakelyan (cello)
About
Best‐known as the darling of the Parisian operetta audience, reliable facteur of hit after hit such as Orpheus in the Underworld and La vie Parisienne, would‐be ‘serious’ composer who never lived to complete or see a staging of his masterpiece, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach was a composer of many parts. His practical training as a cellist of accomplishment is recognised, and his work for the instrument holds a fragile place on the fringe of its repertoire (such as the Cello Duets recorded on Brilliant Classics, 94475) but few listeners will have been aware, until now, of the composer’s work in the field of art‐song.
In fact Offenbach wrote songs throughout his career but most of them belong to his late teens, not long after he had moved to the French capital and become a cellist in the orchestra of the Opéra‐Comique, and thereafter as a touring cello virtuoso in his 20s. The selection made for this album by the Armenian mezzo‐soprano Mariam Sarkissian ranges widely across genres, from the delicious Ronde tyrolienne (of 1838) to the drama‐romance Jalousie of the following year. There is a classic German Lied, O bleib bei mir (1840), a more ambitious ballad Rends‐moi mon âme (1843), and the recital ends with a self-contained comic duet, Meunière et fermière (Mrs Miller and Mrs Farmer), that Offenbach composed in 1846, at the age of 27.
A student of Zara Dolukhanova, long resident in Paris, Mariam Sarkissian has made it her mission to research and revive little‐known and forgotten gems of art-song, especially in French. Previous recordings have included songs in French by Shaporin, Sviridov and Cui, as well as composers from her native Armenia. This disc marks her debut on Brilliant Classics.
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