Meyerbeer: Overtures And Stage Music
) | Label: NCL Catalog: 8574316 Format: COMPACT DISC Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice; Salvi, DarioMeyerbeer was a precocious composer and this album traces some of his very earliest works. Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen was his first stage work, a charming rural vignette that contains all the essential features of a ballet-divertissement couched in writing that enchantingly evokes the 18thcentury. Collaborating with his teacher, the Abbé Georg Vogler, Meyerbeer composed DerAdmiralin1811. The following year saw Wirt und Gast with the vivid Oriental exoticism of its Janissary music, while Romildae Constanza, his first Italian opera, shows his complete assimilation of Rossinian models.  Price: $21.98 |