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
GUY CHAUVET
GABRIEL BACQUIER
Mechanical Pianos
Wagner Recital
Traubel
Tortelier/Le Grand Orchestre de Radio- Paris
Zenaida Pally
Erich Leinsdorf; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Concert Arts Orchestra
Dimitri Mitropoulos; Mario Del Monaco; Ettore Bastianini; Anita Cerquetti; Boris Christoff; Orchest
Various Artists
Various Artists
P-Funk All-Stars
Link Wray
Dion