Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Performer: Marco Sollini
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 7773712
Release: 2009
Size: 233 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Musette, Air de ballet du 17eme siecle, Op. 24 (Arr. For piano)
02. Les Amazones
03. Les Arabesques
04. Chanson de Berthe
05. Brunes et blondes
06. Les fleurs d’hiver
07. Les Trois Graces
08. Le voyage de MM. Dunanan pere et fils (Arr. For piano)
09. Le voyage dans la lune (Version for piano)
10. Coscoletto, ou Le lazzarone (Arr. E. Strauss)
11. Les contes d’Hoffmann (the Tales of Hoffmann), Phobus stolz im Sonnenwagen [Les oiseaux dans la charmille]
The original and the adaptation define this third and final CD in CPO’s series with the piano music of Jacques Offenbach. Six (authentic) piano waltzes form open the disc. The pieces are simple in form but are amazingly varied in terms of melodic invention with surprise effects and rhythmic teases.
The following works are adaptations. Le Voyage dans la lune was arranged by Offenbach himself, whilst the final work, Olympia’s coloratura aria from Tales of Hoffmann was arranged by the interpreter on the disc – the virtuoso pianist Marco Sollini. A graceful, rhythmic and lively interpretation!