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Offenbach wrote piano music? I exclaimed when this disc arrived. Indeed, he did. The 10 dances that make up the Décaméron dramatique contain tunes derived
I reviewed this performance when it appeared on Naxos (type Q66 in Search Reviews), and I feel much the same about it as I hear
Originally this was released in 1951 in clear but somewhat shrill mono (in short, a typical Decca production of the period), and at this time
This was recorded in 1972, before many of the extra, newly discovered 800-or-so pages of the Hoffmann score had been pored over and incorporated into
Jacques Offenbach wrote some of the most effervescent and memorable dance melodies in history, tunes an audience can sing while coming out of the theater
This live performance of Offenbach’s witty, tuneful, swift-moving operetta smacks of the theater: in addition to some audible movement (not bothersome), the singers play off
Jennie Tourel had a lovely voice, though it no longer seems as outstanding as it once did given the plethora of mezzos with which we
This was recorded long before the discovery of the hundreds of additional pages of Offenbach’s score that has informed performances since the mid-1980s. In other
This is the soundtrack to the 1947 English film of Offenbach’s great work. It’s sung in English in an okay translation, the score is cut
Offenbach wanted Hoffmann to be a “grand opera” but left the work unfinished at his death. What was premiered in 1881 had little to do
