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
GUY CHAUVET
GABRIEL BACQUIER
Mechanical Pianos
Wagner Recital
Traubel
Tortelier/Le Grand Orchestre de Radio- Paris
Tony Poncet
Lucia Caihuela; La Madrilena; Jose Antonio Montano
Lisette Oropesa; Kate Lindsey; Bekhzod Davronov; Aleksei Kulagin; Thomas Lehman; Nino Gotoshia; Sal
La Cetra; Alexandrina Pendatschanska; Laura Alonso; Andries Cloete; Amel Brahim-Djelloul; Claire Br
Georg Zeppenfeld; Michael Spyres; Christina Nilsson; Michael Nagy; Jongmin Park; Matthias Stier; Ch
Daniel Blanco Albert; Roxanne Korda; Hannah McDonald Flynn; Infinite Opera Ensemble
Anna Netrebko; Brian Jagde; Ludovic Tezier; Vasilisa Berzhanskaya; Fabrizio Beggi; Orchestra and Ch
Mark Adamo: Lysistrata
Ludmila Cervinkova, Beno Blachut, Eduard Haken, Marta Krasova, Marie Podvalova, Prague National The