Composer: Daniel François Esprit Auber
Orchestra: Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Conductor: Dario Salvi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574597
Release: 2024
Size: 764 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Le Cheval de bronze, AWV 25
01. Overture
Le Cheval de bronze, ballet, AWV 47
02. Act I: Pas de quatre
03. Act III: Danse
04. Act IV: Pas de deux
Le Lac des fées, AWV 32
05. Overture
Le Lac des fées, AWV 32
06. Act III: Marche des rois
07. Act III: Valse des étudiants
Marco Spada, AWV 46
08. Act III: Pas de Mme Rosati
Jenny Bell, AWV 44
09. Overture
Das eherne Pferd, AWV 25
10. Overture (Arr. for Orchestra by Engelbert Humperdinck)
This seventh volume of Auber’s overtures features the ‘fairy opera’ Le Cheval de bronze (1835). The overture expresses the magical and mystical dynamism of the story, while the 1857 opéra-ballet version presents an interpolated dance sequence, exemplifying some exotic chinoiserie. Poetic and graceful, Le Lac des fées was highly regarded in Germany, and proved influential on Wagner who saw it in Paris. Marco Spada evinces some of Auber’s most accomplished and sustained mood setting. The overture to Le Cheval de bronze is also heard here in the arrangement by Engelbert Humperdinck (Das eherne Pferd, 1889).