Offenbach: Homage Mecanique - Le Papillon, La Diva Etc
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Description
Before the phonographic era, the most common way to diffuse music was the mechanical pianos (pianolas) and the fairground organs.
Works that enjoyed a short career (like Offenbach's Diva) were diffused by this method and these cards or cylinders constitute not just the only recordings that we possess of them today but are also the the oldest and the nearest to Offenbach.
Malibran has issued a double CD dedicated to this "early" Offenbach with 20 excerpts of works including 4 titles that have never been issued on CD:
Le Papillon(1860), La Diva (1869), Le Roi Carotte (1872), la Marocaine (1879).
Of course, there are no words in the opera or operetta recordings here, but these reproductions have the great advantage of allowing us to discover the music of Offenbach as it was diffused during his life and before the arrival of modern recording techniques.
Tracklisting
Denise Boursin, Berthe Monmart, Claudine Collart
Otto Wolf
MICHEL CADIOU
GUY CHAUVET
Genevieve Moizan
GABRIEL BACQUIER
Artists Of The Paris Opera
Mechanical Pianos
Sondra Radvanovsky, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Enrique Mazzola
Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Mihhail Gerts; Tassis Christoyannis; Ni
Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Veronika Kleiber, Otto Schenk, Eric Schulz
Les Agrémens; Choeur De Chambre De Namur; Guy Van Waas
Dresdner Kreuzchor; Cappella
S.Narucki A. Komsi
Scherzi Musicali; Nicolas Acht
Paolo Aralla; Andrea Camilleri; Michele Marco Rossi