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Auber: Overtures 2
8.574006 (Naxos, CD)
DDD
NEW RELEASE (10 July 2020)
Playing time: 61'16"
Tracks: 15
Booklet pages: 12
© 2020 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: CZ
Country of manufacture: DE
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Auber: Overtures 2 published on 4 October 2020
Listen: Auber: Overture to Léocadie (track 10, 0:00-0:52)
Markéta Čepická, violin (tracks 2-4)
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Dario Salvi, conductor
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871):
Le Concert à la cour, ou La Débutante (1824)
1 Overture (first recording)
Violin Concerto in D (circa 1805) (first recording)
2 Allegro ma non troppo
3 Andante
4 Presto
Fiorella (1826)
5 Overture
6 Entr'acte to Act III (first recording)
Julie, ou l'erreur d'un moment (1805) (first recording)
7 Overture
8 Finale
Lestocq, ou L'Intrigue et l'Amour (1834) (first recording)
9 Entr'acte to Act III
Léocadie (1824)
10 Overture
11 Entr'acte to Act II (first recording)
12 Entr'acte to Act III (first recording)
Couvin, ou Jean de Chimay (1812) (first recording)
13 Introduction to Act I
14 Introduction to Act II
La fiancée (1829) (first recording)
15 Entr'acte to Act III
Recorded 4-7 February 2019 at The House of Music, Pardubice, Czech Republic.