Offenbach: Suites For 2 Cellos

Roland Pidoux & Etienne Péclard (cello)

Jacques Offenbach: Premiere Suite, Deuxieme Suite

What's that? Offenbach wrote works for cello?Yes indeed: though everyone familiar with his fabulous talent as a composer of operettas, very few poeple know that he was also a brilliant cellist. Even though the two suites presented on this disc bristle with difficulties for the performers, there is in this work a breath of insouciance, a spontaneous outpouring of melody which prompted their composer to remark: 'I will certainly die with a tune at the tip of my pen.'

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