Opera-Comique Overtures/ Various - Opera-Comique OverturesOpera comique emerged in the 19th century as an intermediary between grand opera and burlesque operetta. This album charts it's progression as a distinct genre, tracing the origins from Boieldieu and Mehul early in the century via the classic vitality of masters such as Herold and Maillart into the operetta style of Offenbach and Lecocq. With innovative features, colorful orchestration, drama, wit and atmospheric writing, the operas proved very

humiliations

«This album was written over a period of three years while I was living in the forest and worked at a graveyard

Making use of a total of 18 different instruments - from sopranino recorder and oboe da caccia to bassoon

But this is no seaside holiday - within minutes

rhythmic vibes

"It's a big

entrusted to the woodwind

Dave Dreiwitz (Ween) on bass

I want to draw listeners' attention to these works

With her artistic courage to be stubborn - to be understood in the spirit of Hermann Hesse - namely to select precisely those works that suit her as a pianist

he realizes they just can't see him

performers Giorgio Sasso and Salvatore Carchioli conducted extensive research into authentic source material and reconstructed several concertos which "could have existed