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Given Reynaldo Hahn’s high profile with the patrons of Paris’s pre-war artist salons, it’s not surprising that his original works for piano include a good number of short character pieces that exude charm. Listeners coming to this exquisite body of work may initially find Hahn’s attractive if modestly deployed keyboard writing recalling or foreshadowing other composers: The sensuous, arching phrases of early Scriabin preludes, or the sparse lyricism of late Liszt. Fauré’s subtle harmonic palette may cast a benign shadow, or the effortless melodic fluidity of Massenet; or Satie at his least brash and ironic, or the delicate balance of Mompou’s piano miniatures.

This legendary album is finally made available to digital partners, as part of Warner's Otto Klemperer retrospective!

Jules Verne was the inspiration for Offenbach’s opéra-féerie, premiered in 1875. The Parisian craze for this type of musical extravaganza stemmed from its impressive stage effects: for Le Voyage dans la Lune, two ballets and some twenty sets took the audience from the Earth to the Moon, successively recreating the Paris Observatory, a working blast furnace and the crater of an erupting volcano. The piece is studded with zany characters and imaginary places: a lunar landscape, a glass palace, mother-of-pearl galleries, etc. The producers even borrowed a dromedary and an ostrich from the zoo at the Jardin d’Acclimatation! To accompany this theatrical display, Offenbach composed a series of colourful, picturesque hit numbers, wittily and energetically performed here by a team of enthusiastic soloists.The Chœur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie are placed under the subtle and precise direction of Pierre Dumoussaud.

Jules Verne was the inspiration for Offenbach’s opéra-féerie, premiered in 1875. The Parisian craze for this type of musical extravaganza stemmed from its impressive stage effects: for Le Voyage dans la Lune, two ballets and some twenty sets took the audience from the Earth to the Moon, successively recreating the Paris Observatory, a working blast furnace and the crater of an erupting volcano. The piece is studded with zany characters and imaginary places: a lunar landscape, a glass palace, mother-of-pearl galleries, etc. The producers even borrowed a dromedary and an ostrich from the zoo at the Jardin d’Acclimatation! To accompany this theatrical display, Offenbach composed a series of colourful, picturesque hit numbers, wittily and energetically performed here by a team of enthusiastic soloists.The Chœur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie are placed under the subtle and precise direction of Pierre Dumoussaud.

Libretto enclosed. Il Conte di Almaviva: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tatiana Troyanos as Cherubino, and others. Karl Bohm, Conductor. This is The Originals (Original-Image Bit-Processing, Added presence and brilliance, greater spatial definition) by Deutsche Grammophon.

Armide, premiered in 1686, was the last joint work of Lully and the poet Philippe Quinault. It immediately became a pillar of the Opéra's repertory, which it finally left only in 1766, when it was removed to make room for a new wave of composers, Philidor, Grétry, Gossec and soon Gluck.

Magnifique roman de cape et d’épée, hommage sublime à Cartouche et Fanfan la Tulipe, "Le Scorpion" se veut également réflexions sur l’origine des religions. Et si le bien et le mal n’étaient que des illusions humaines, créées pour permettre à quelques familles de régner sur le monde à travers les siècles ? Et si les idéaux qui percent timidement en ce 18ème siècle et qui ont pour nom liberté, égalité, mettaient en danger ce pouvoir, comment réagiraient ces neufs familles ? Un homme seul pourrait-il mettre en péril leur pouvoir séculaire ?

This recording forms part of Sony Classical’s further batch of complete recordings from the CBS/Sony and RCA Victor catalogues. This album features “a delightfully fresh-sounding” Michele Pertusi (BBC Music Magazine) in Zubin Mehta’s 1992 recording of Le nozze di Figaro with the Maggio Musicale of Florence. The BBC reviewer lauded Mehta for his “energising sense of pace and colour [and] consistently good orchestral playing.

Roi de l'heroic fantasy, Segrelles trace des tableaux grandioses qui font de lui le chantre des aventures de ce guerrier imperturbable au sourire de marbre... Son dessin d'un grand réalisme n'empêche pourtant son imagination débridée de se déployer avec éclat et de nous emmener dans des mondes légendaires tous plus fabuleux les uns que les autres.

The last great tragédie en musique or “musical tragedy” of the reign of Louis XIV, Alcyone (Alcione, as the title appears in the 1706 edition) is an all-round spectacle poised between the 17th and 18th centuries. From the 17th century it takes its mythological source, its prologue in praise of the king, its high literary quality and its vocation for spectacle, combining choreography and changes of scenery.