Les trois baisers du diable - Ouverture
Robinson Crusoé - Entr’acte
Le voyage dans la lune - Ouverture
Fantasio - Acte III, No. 15 Entr’acte
Le Roi Carotte - No. 26 – Entr’acte (L’orage)
Les Fées du Rhin - Ouverture
Fantasio - Acte II, No . 8 Entr’acte
Barkouf - Acte III, Entr’acte – Valse
Fantasio - Acte I, Introduction
La Haine - No. 22 – Marche Religieuse
Le Roi Carotte - No. 25 A – Introduction
Le Roi Carotte - No. 25 B – Ballet/Valse
Orphée aux enfers - Ouverture

Offenbach Fantastique! 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!