French Opera Overtures / Järvi, Estonian National Symphony

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
July 5, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Daniel Auber, Alexandre Lecocq, Jean Planquette
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 05, 2024
    • UPC
      095115231821
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20318
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Le domino noir, S. 30: Overture

      Composer: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    2. La Muette de Portici, S. 16: Overture

      Composer: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    3. Les diamants de la couronne, S. 34: Overture

      Composer: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    4. Les cloches de Corneville: Overture

      Composer: Robert Planquette

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    5. Overture: Allegro moderato - Allegro moderato - Cadenza ad libitum - Allegro molto - Più allegro

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    6. Act I: Allegro - Allegro moderato

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    7. Act I: Allegretto - Più mosso

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    8. Act I: Mazurka: [Allegro vivace]

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    9. Act I: Andantino - Tempo di Valse - Più mosso

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    10. Act I: Tempo di Marcia - Coda

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    11. Act I: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    12. Act I: Allegretto

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    13. Act II: Allegro - Tempo di Gavotta - Allegro - Tempo di Gavotta -

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    14. Act II: Allegretto - Più mosso - Tempo di Galop -

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    15. Act II: Allegro - Tempo di Valse -

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    16. Act II: Allegro - Presto

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    17. Act II: Adagio

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    18. Act II: Allegro moderato - Più mosso - Allegro - Allegro moderato - Vivo - Più mosso -

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    19. Act II: Finale: Allegro molto - Vivo

      Composer: Charles Lecocq

      Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi


The nineteenth-century French opera overture was for many years looked down on by certain music critics (and musicians) - largely as the genre turned its back on the historical adherence to strict musical form (fugue, sonata form, etc.). Percy Scholes, in the 1955 Oxford Companion to Music, had the following to say: 'a cheap but not always ineffective type of opera overture is that of the pot-pourri or medley - little more than a string of tunes from the work to follow.' These overtures were incredibly popular in their time, and the revival of this repertoire is long overdue.

Daniel Auber composed more than fifty operas, some for the Paris Opera and some for the Opera Comique. His Grand Opera La Muette de Portici famously sparked the Belgian revolution in 1830, which led to the country's independence in 1839. Les Cloches de Corneville was by far the most successful of Planquette's twenty-four operas, receiving some 400 consecutive performances. Alexandre Lecocq's La Fille de Madame Angot was premiered in Brussels in 1872 and is set in post-revolutionary Paris. The Overture is followed here by numbers put together by Gordon Jacob, in his re-orchestration of material taken mainly from the opera, for Leonide Massine's ballet Mam'zelle Angot, which closely follows the action of the opera.