Utwory na płycie:

• La vie parisienne: Overture
• Orphee aux enfers: Overture

Jacques Offenbach:
Overture to ‘Le Mariage aux lanternes’
Overture to ‘Orphée aux enfers’
Overture to ‘La Belle Hélene’
Overture to ’Barbe-bleue’
Overture to ‘La Vie parisienne’
Overture to ‘La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein’
Overture to ‘Vert-Vert’
Overture and ballet to ‘Le Voyage dans la lune’
Overture to ‘La Fille du tambour-major’
Introduction to ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann'

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 Hélene, 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 those works. Their brilliant tunes continue to delight

over 130 years after his death.Neeme Järvi, one of the most recorded living conductors, has championed similar repertoire

with the OSR, such as the finest orchestral works of Chabrier [CHSA 5122] and Massenet [CHSA 5137], to critical acclaim.