The music of Jacques Offenbach defines the intoxicating, hedonistic spirit of Paris in the mid-19th century. Above all, there is the galop infernal from Orphée aux enfers, often known simply as ‘the can-can’. That Offenbach also had a gift for lyricism is clear from his haunting, lilting Barcarolle, a highlight of his opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Both pieces feature in this irresistible collection of operetta, opera and orchestral music. Alongside many treasures from the Warner Classics catalogue, it contains the first-time release of Musette for cello and orchestra in performance by Edgar Moreau with Les Forces Majeures and Raphaël Merlin.

Artists

Yann Beuron (tenor), Lydie Pruvot (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Virginie Pochon (soprano), Steven Cole (tenor), Patricia Petibon (soprano), Laurent Naouri (baritone), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Ewa Podles (mezzo-soprano), Etienne Lescroart (tenor), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Huguette Boulangeot (soprano), Raymond Amade (tenor), Rémy Corazza (tenor), René Terrasson (bass), Michel Dens (baritone), Nadine Sautereau (soprano), Dominique Tirmont (bass-baritone), Joseph Peyron (tenor), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Franck Leguérinel (baritone), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Maryline Fallot (soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre (early music ensemble), Grenoble, Jennifer Tani (soprano), François Le Roux (bass-baritone, baritone), Blandine Staskiewicz (mezzo-soprano), Aurélia Legay (soprano), Alain Gabriel (tenor), Eric Huchet (tenor), Christophe Grapperon (baritone), Boris Grappe (baritone), Blan, Jean-Luc Viala (tenor), Brigitte Desnoues (mezzo-soprano), Christian Jean (tenor), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (mezzo-soprano, soprano), Francis Dudziak (baritone), Gaële Le Roi (soprano), Ghislaine Raphanel (soprano), Michel Trempont (baritone), Pierre-Yves Le Maigat (baritone), Tibère Raffalli (tenor), Élizabeth Vidal (soprano), Alain Maratrat (vocals), Alexandre Laiter (tenor), Jean-Marc Brun (vocals), Michel Pastor (tenor), Philippe Dusigne (tenor), Fabien Pothier (vocals), Consuelo Caroli (mezzo-soprano), Judith Becle (spoken voice vocals), Isabelle Eschenbrenner (soprano), Brigitte Denoues (soprano), Elisabeth Vidal (soprano), Michel Demonfoux (bass), Michel Fockenoy (tenor), Jacques Loreau (tenor), René Schirrer (baritone), Thierry Dran (tenor), Bernard Pisani (tenor), Valérie Millot (soprano), Charles Burles (tenor), Mady Mesplé (soprano), Les, José Canalès, Laurent Alvaro (baritone), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Magali Léger, Hjördis Thébault (soprano), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Henry Amiel, José Carreras (tenor), Calvin Sieb, Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Michèle Command, Hugues Brambilla, Pierrette Delange, Sonia Nigoghossian, Calv, Jean-Christophe Benoit (baritone), Luis Masson (baritone), Régine Crespin (soprano), Danièle Castaings (vocals), Françoise Gayral (vocals), Éliane Lublin (soprano), Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone), Leonard Pezzino (tenor), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Benoît Boutet (tenor), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Jane Rhodes (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano), Benno Kusche (baritone), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Adolf Dallapozza (tenor), Marco Bakker (baritone), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Julia Varady (soprano), Han-Na Chang (cello), Wolfgang Boettcher (cello), Bruno Canino (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello), L'Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de Chambre de Grenoble, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Opéra National de Lyon, Choeur de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Orchestre lyrique de l'O.R.T.F., Chorale Philippe Caillard, Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Choeur René Duclos, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Choeurs de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Choeur du Capitole de Toulouse, Ensemble Choral Jean Laforge, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Choeurs de l’Opéra National du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, Orchestre de l’Opéra National du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, Philharmonia Hungarica, Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Les Forces Majeures, Orchestra Les Forces Majeures, Manuel Rosenthal, Marc Minkowski, Marcel Couraud, Félix Nuvolone, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Michel Plasson, Lawrence Foster, Kent Nagano, Roberto Benzi, Sylvain Cambreling, Willy Mattes, Heinz Wallberg, Antonio Pappano, Raphaël Merlin