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Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Waldteufel: Waltzes.(Sound Recording Review)
Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Waldteufel: Waltzes. Manuel Rosenthal; Willi Boskovsky; Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. EMI 7243 5 85066 2.
It'll be the best eight bucks you spent in a long time. This budget issue from EMI has the distinction of being not only authoritative but spectacularly well recorded. What more could you want from your hard-earned dollar?
In 1938 Manuel Rosenthal pieced together a little ballet from some of the most familiar bits of Jacques Offenbach's operas La Vie pariesienne, La belle Helene, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann, and others. Rosenthal died in 2003, just short of his 100th birthday, but in his lifetime he managed to record his Gaite Parisienne at least three times, the last time for Naxos when he was in his nineties. Anyway, the recording we have here was one the conductor/arranger made with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic in 1976 when he was a mere stripling in his seventies.
When I first came to the recording on vinyl, I was happily living with my old Fiedler RCA Living Stereo LP from the mid fifties, now remastered by both RCA and JVC. Frankly, it took me a while to warm up to Rosenthal's version, but because it sounded so good I gave it repeated listens and it grew on me. Unlike Fiedler, who takes the ...
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