Suppe - Overtures and Marches
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5110
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 2nd January 2013
Contents
Works
Marziale nach Motiven aus der Operette 'Fatinitza' (Suppe)Boccaccio
Isabella
Artists
Royal Scottish National OrchestraConductor
Neeme JarviWorks
Marziale nach Motiven aus der Operette 'Fatinitza' (Suppe)Boccaccio
Isabella
Artists
Royal Scottish National OrchestraConductor
Neeme JarviAbout
Although the bulk of his operas and operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, his bright and colourful overtures have survived. Suppé was often referred to as ‘the Viennese Offenbach’, and in fact he was responsible for introducing many of Offenbach’s operettas to the Austrian capital. The Beautiful Galatea was among his first efforts in the style of Offenbach, Suppé here taking on the French composer’s La Belle Hélène.
Also on this disc are the overtures to Poet and Peasant, perhaps Suppé’s most familiar, and Boccaccio, which is widely regarded as Suppé’s finest work for the stage, based very loosely on the life of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), the Florentine author of the Decameron.
It would seem that wars and musical comedy often go hand in hand, perhaps partly for the purpose of deflating military pomposity. Several of Suppé’s operettas are in this vein, including Light Cavalry, The Jolly Robbers, Isabella and, a major success, Fatinitza, all of which feature military plots in some form.
Last, but not least, this disc features Suppé’s overtures to A Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna, The Queen of Spades, Donna Juanita and The Model, several operatic marches, the concert march Up Hill and Down Dale, and the Humorous Variations on the beloved Student Song ‘Who comes from afar?’.
The works are performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, who in 2012 celebrated his thirty-year recording career with Chandos Records.
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