Offenbach Fantastique: Symphonic Music by Jacques Offenbach | Genuin GEN20698

Offenbach Fantastique: Symphonic Music by Jacques Offenbach

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Label: Genuin

Cat No: GEN20698

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th March 2020

Contents

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Barkouf
» Entr'acte - Valse (Act 3)
Die Rheinnixen (Les Fees du Rhin)
» Overture
Fantasio
» Entr'acte (Act 2)
» Introduction (Act 1)
La Haine
» Marche religieuse
Le Roi Carotte
» Entracte: L'orage
» Introduction and Ballet-Valse
Le Voyage dans la Lune
» Overture
Les Trois Graces
» Overture
Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphee aux enfers)
» Overture
Robinson Crusoe
» Entr'acte

Artists

Leipziger Symphonieorchester

Conductor

Nicolas Kruger

Works

Offenbach, Jacques

Barkouf
» Entr'acte - Valse (Act 3)
Die Rheinnixen (Les Fees du Rhin)
» Overture
Fantasio
» Entr'acte (Act 2)
» Introduction (Act 1)
La Haine
» Marche religieuse
Le Roi Carotte
» Entracte: L'orage
» Introduction and Ballet-Valse
Le Voyage dans la Lune
» Overture
Les Trois Graces
» Overture
Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphee aux enfers)
» Overture
Robinson Crusoe
» Entr'acte

Artists

Leipziger Symphonieorchester

Conductor

Nicolas Kruger

About

Everybody knows Jacques Offenbach's fantastic melodies: the snappy Can-Can from his first international triumph Orphée aux enfers, which had been danced in numerous film classics, or the Barcarole from Les Contes d'Hoffmann. His music sparkles with charming wit, ingenuity, and slapstick comedy. With his famous operettas, Offenbach established a new genre – political cabaret with enchanting musical ideas. Like no other, he hit the nerve of the time of Parisian life in the 1860 and 70s in his over 100 dramatic works. He composed as if on an assembly line. Pieces that flopped landed irretrievably in the bin. This recording by the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nicolas Krüger is now dedicated to the little-known works that reflect the richness of this unique composer's multifaceted repertoire. In the caustic satires of the times, he turns dogs and carrots into rulers or abducts them to the worlds of knights and the moon: Offenbach Fantastique!

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