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

Karine Deshayes – Offenbach: Fables de la Fontaine (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:39 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Classical
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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. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Boule de neige: Ouverture (04:55)
02. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Boule de neige: La Valse du divorce (03:14)
03. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : Le berger et la mer (04:46)
04. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : Le corbeau et le renard (02:26)
05. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : La cigale et la fourmi (04:18)
06. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : La laitière et le pot au lait (04:41)
07. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : Le rat de ville et le rat des champs (02:05)
08. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Six fables de la Fontaine : Le savetier et le financier (08:02)
09. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Les bavards : Ouverture (05:57)
10. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Les bavards : C’est l’Espagne (02:55)
11. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Les deux aveugles : Ouverture (03:25)
12. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Madame Favard : Ouverture (04:43)
13. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Monsieur Choufleuri : Ouverture (02:01)
14. Karine Deshayes, Orchestre de l’opéra de Rouen Normandie, Jean-Pierre Haeck – Schüler polka (02:05)

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