Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Darrell Ang
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Size: 1.30 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Robert le Diable: Overture
02. L’Etoile du Nord: Overture
Les Huguenots
03. Overture
04. Act I: Orgie (Drinking Song)
05. Act II: Entr’acte
06. Act V: Entr’acte
07. Act V: Ballet
L’Africaine
08. Overture
09. Act II: Entr’acte
10. Act III: Entr’acte
11. Act V: Entr’acte
12. Act V: Grand scene du mancenillier
Dinorah
13. Overture
14. Act II: Entr’acte
15. Act III: Entr’acte
Le Prophete
16. Overture
17. Act IV: Coronation March
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Darrell Ang
Recorded: 6-8 June 2013
Recording Venue: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s eminence as an operatic composer was such that the works he wrote for the Paris Opéra between 1831 and 1865 – Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, L’Africaine and Le Prophète – were among the most spectacular and popular, well into the twentieth century. These overtures and orchestral pieces illustrate the power of Meyerbeer’s writing, his sense of drama, his orchestral colouring, and his melodic beauty. L’Etoile du Nord and Dinorah, written for the Opéra Comique, are lighter in tone, but notable for their programmatic inventiveness.