Roussel: Le Testament de la Tante Caroline / Corlay, Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Albert Roussel
    • PERFORMER
      Marie Lenormand, Marion Gomar, Lucile Komites, Aurelien Gasse, Charles Mesrine, Marie Perbost, Fabie
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2022
    • UPC
      730099047975
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8660479
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

Le Testament de la Tante Caroline (‘Aunt Caroline’s Will’) remains one of Roussel’s least-known works. It’s an energetic and imaginative operetta that sits perfectly in the lineage of French musical comedy, with a plot that concerns the conditions attached to the mischievous aunt’s will. The text is inimitably Parisian and Roussel responded with graceful and elegant writing that for some contemporary critics evoked the music of one his orchestral masterpieces, Le Festin de l’araignée. The operetta is heard herein the revision requested by Roussel’s widow which cuts three acts down to one.