Karine Deshayes – Offenbach: Fables de la Fontaine (2019) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Karine Deshayes – Offenbach: Fables de la Fontaine (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:33 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | DigitalBooklet, Front Cover | © Beluga Heights – Warner Records

A grasshopper, a milkmaid’s pail, a shepherd, a fox, a country mouse, a cobbler… These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842, some 150 years after they were written by Jean de La Fontaine. With their vivid texts featuring talking animals and stock characters, the Fables offered an allegorical and didactic way of alluding to the court and the mores of the time. Offenbach chose six of the 240 Fables of La Fontaine to set as mélodies. Here the conductor Jean-Pierre Haeck presents them in his own orchestration performed by the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen and the mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes, who excels in this repertory. To complete the programme, the singer performs numbers from Offenbach’s opéra-bouffe Boule-de-neige and the orchestra plays movements from the ballet Le Papillon, offering listeners a recording as refined as it is witty.

Tracklist:
01. Boule de neige: Ouverture
02. Boule de neige: La Valse du divorce
03. Six fables de la Fontaine : Le berger et la mer
04. Six fables de la Fontaine : Le corbeau et le renard
05. Six fables de la Fontaine : La cigale et la fourmi
06. Six fables de la Fontaine : La laitière et le pot au lait
07. Six fables de la Fontaine : Le rat de ville et le rat des champs
08. Six fables de la Fontaine : Le savetier et le financier
09. Les bavards : Ouverture
10. Les bavards : C’est l’Espagne
11. Les deux aveugles : Ouverture
12. Madame Favard : Ouverture
13. Monsieur Choufleuri : Ouverture
14. Schüler polka

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