Great Comedy Overtures / Friedel, Royal Scottish

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
April 14, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HEROLD NICOLAI WOLF-FERRARI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Friedel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 14, 2015
    • UPC
      747313341870
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573418
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Zampa: Overture

      Composer: Ferdinand Hérold

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    2. Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Overture

      Composer: Otto Nicolai

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    3. Il segreto di Susanna: Overture

      Composer: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    4. Mignon: Overture

      Composer: Ambroise Thomas

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    5. Donna Diana: Overture

      Composer: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    6. Martha: Overture

      Composer: Friedrich von Flotow

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    7. Fra Diavolo, S. 18: Overture

      Composer: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    8. Zar und Zimmermann: Overture

      Composer: Albert Lortzing

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    9. Il matrimonio segreto: Overture (1792 Vienna version)

      Composer: Domenico Cimarosa

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    10. Si j'étais roi: Overture

      Composer: Adolphe Adam

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel

    11. Der Barbier von Bagdad: Overture (arr. F. Mottl for orchestra)

      Composer: Peter Cornelius

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: Lance Friedel


The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country’s borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese operetta. Some of the world’s most popular comic opera overtures, filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and race-to-the-finish endings, are presented here. They include staples of the concert repertoire such as Hérold’s dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid colour of Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann.