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NX 4335
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 5
Label Catalogue Number:
8.574335
8.574335
Running Time: 01:17:13
Release Date: December 2021
Originally recorded in 2020
Originally recorded in 2020
Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
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From the mid-1820s onwards Auber’s career was filled with success. His opéras-comiques and grands operas won repeated acclaim for their myriad qualities of Parisian elegance. The fifth volume in this series features two of his Sicilian operas and both center on well-delineated female characters. Brimming with grace, charm and lyricism, the extensive ballet from Zerline exemplifies why Auber’s music was so popular. Philippe Musard’s QuadrilleNo.2 on themes from Zanetta shows the extent of Auber’s contemporary popularity and is a revealing cultural souvenir of the period.
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Reviews
“… There is an elegance and style to the orchestral writing, lyricism certainly but also imagination. The orchestrations are all light, but full of ideas with plenty of great charm. This is music that is far more sophisticated than we might at first believe. The Entractes and the ballet music is very direct, each short movement has a clear aim, a particular style but even here Auber does not make us feel he is not spinning, there is plenty to keep you interested with a series of short yet characterful movements. The performers on the disc are, at first sight, slightly unlikely. A Scotland-based Italian-born conductor and a Czech Orchestra. But Dario Salvi has a feel for this style of music; he has made operetta an 19th century ballet something of a field of study. And he certainly is able to charm the orchestra into some surprisingly stylish playing…” ****
Robert Hugill – Planet Hugill.com – 15 March 2022
“… there’s musical interest her aplenty. The melodic invention – Italianate with a French accent – is winning, the orchestration is vivid and the Janácek Philharmonic play with considerable polish for Dario Salvi, with shapely woodwind and violin solos, and a jaunty lilt to the dance rhythms in the various quadrilles and syriennes… these are attractive accounts of music that deserves better than its current obscurity.”
Richard Bratby – Gramophone magazine – February 2022
“… It is, perhaps, inevitable that an ongoing and comprehensive survey such as this will include music that is less than consistently inspired – or, to be frank, even inspired at all. Nevertheless, this Naxos series is proving a very worthwhile exercise as it begins to fill the many gaps in Auber’s discography. The ready availability of music from such scores as Zanetta and Zerline now begins to allow us to gain a fuller appreciation of the composer and his music. The performances here are, moreover, entirely idiomatic. The Ostrava-based Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra, newly co-opted to the project, does sterling service throughout as they tackle no doubt hitherto unfamiliar scores. Meanwhile, Dario Salvi’s skilled direction and the expertise of Naxos’s engineering team – both consistent features of the series - ensure that plenty of felicitous detail is uncovered and recorded. I have no hesitation at all in warmly welcoming this new release to the catalogue.”
Rob Maynard – MusicWeb-International.com – 25 January 2022
“… The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra has taken Auber’s third name as its guiding principle and plays with esprit. The music sounds airy, light, natural, the melodies sparkling and brimming with musical wit.” ****
Guy Engels – Pizzicato.lu – 28 December 2021
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