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Offenbach 2019 The orchestral works in the Offenbach Edition Keck OEK Orchestral numbers from the stage works Offenbach for concerts Ballet music & larger excerpts: Highlight Les Fées du Rhin Overture Les Fées du Rhin Ballet & Grande valse Orphée aux Enfers (1874) Orphée aux Enfers (version 1874) Ballet des mouches Le Royaume de Neptune Orphée aux Enfers (version 1874) Divertissement des songes et des heures (L’Atlantide) La Voyage dans la lune Ballet des flocons de neige Recent new editions: After having reworked Orphée Music for orchestra Le Roi Carotte Ballet aux Enfers, premiered in 1858, Geneviève de Brabant (version 1867) Ballet into a ‘opéra-féerie’, Offenbach added another 30 minutes to his The Offenbach Edition Keck Original compositions Waltzes: most successful stage work: In 10 OEK offers a rich repertoire Abendblätter Walzer (Evening Papers Waltz) Barbe-Bleue Entracte act III scenes, the ballet act “Le Royaume La Belle Hélène Entracte act II de Neptune” paints the undersea of entertaining and ‘serious’ Offenbach Waltz (American Eagle Waltz) for solo cornet and orchestra Ouverture à grand orchestre Le Financier et Savetier Overture kingdom of Atlantis. The music, works also for concert Le Papillon – Suite, by Jean-Christophe Keck after Offenbach’s ballet La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Entracte act III (Carillon et valse) lost until recently, is one of the programs. Polka des Mirlitons for three mirlitons, cornet and orchestra Monsieur Choufleuri Overture major rediscoveries within the Souvenir d’Aix Orphée aux Enfers (version 1874) Entracte act II OEK. The edition will be premiered Arias and other vocal numbers from the Souvenir des Bouffes-Parisiens La Périchole Entracte act II in June 2019 by the Vienna Radio stage works naturally have long had their Un Mari à la porte Overture Symphony Orchestra under the place also in the concert hall. Among Cello and orchestra La Vie parisienne Entracte act V baton of Johannes Debus. these are ‘all-time favorites’ such as the Grand Concerto (“Concerto Militaire”) ‘Tipsy Arietta’ from La Périchole, the ‘Fly Hommage à Rossini Polkas, Galops & other dances: Duet,’ John Styx’s couplets, or the ‘Hymn [Introduction,] Prière et Boléro La Belle Hélène Polka (entracte act III) to Bacchus’ from Orphée aux Enfers Musette for cello and strings Les Brigands Polka (entracte act III) (Orpheus in the Underworld), the ‘Letter Le Château à Toto Bourrée (entracte act II) RESOURCES Aria’ from La Vie parisienne, the ‘Dream Voice(s) and orchestra La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Galop (entracte scene IV) Duet’ and the ‘Judgement of Paris’ from Orphée aux Enfers (versions 1858 & 1874) Danse antique (entracte act III) Playlists with uncut audios of the Espoir en Dieu for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra La Belle Hélène, and the ‘Ballade à la Orphée aux Enfers (versions 1858 & 1874) Galop infernal works named here are available on Im grünen Mai – Mélodie for soprano and orchestra lune’ from Fantasio. Orphée aux Enfers (version 1874) Ballet pastoral request from our offices. The special work La Vie parisienne Boléro (entracte act III) Please send an email to On the right-hand page of this folder, La Vie parisienne Polka (entracte act IV) [email protected] La Haine (1874) we recommend orchestral excerpts Incidental music for the 5-act drama by Victorien Sardou, with choir from the stage works, which are likewise Arrangements Shorter audio clips, with weblinks suitable for concert programs. There are Le Carnaval des Revues: Le compositeur de l’avenir aux Champs-Elysées (1860) by Isaac Strauss, Olivier Métra, Henri Marx and Léon Dufils after Offenbach to the works, are also available on a number of original compositions for Numbers with voice(s): Couplets du diapason | Tyrolienne de l’avenir | Variable from six instruments (flute & 5 strings) to large orchestra: the Boosey & Hawkes website: and with orchestra by Offenbach himself, Quatuor d’après Les Huguenots de Meyerbeer Quadrilles from: Bagatelle, La Belle Hélène, Belle Lurette, Les Bergers and bit.ly/AudioClipsOEK some of which, edited by the OEK, have Orchestra only: Symphonie de l’avenir (Marche des fiancées) | Robinson Crusoé become available only recently: Marche du Sacré d’après Le Prophète de Meyerbeer | Polka des timbres Waltz suite from: La Diva Digital perusal scores of many Waltzes on motives from: La Belle Hélène and Le Fifre enchanté of the works presented here are Polka from: La Vie parisienne available on our website: For military band: bit.ly/OnlineScoresOEK Quadrilles on motives from: Orphée aux Enfers and La Vie parisienne
Recordings ‘Offenbach Romantique’ ‘Ballade symphonique’ ‘Folies dansantes’ Orchestral works Overture from Orphée aux Souvenir d’Aix-les-bains & Quadrilles and Fantaisias Overtures from Orphée aux Enfers | Grand Concerto | Preludes and Melodramas by I. Strauss, O. Métra, Enfers, La Belle Hélène, Overture & No. 17 (Ballet et from the stage works La Vie H. Marx und L. Dufils after La Fille du tambour-major, Grande valse) from Les Fées parisienne, Les Bergers, La various stage works by Barbe-bleue, Le Mariage aux du Rhin | Ballet des Flocons Périchole, Trafalgar sur un Jacques Offenbach (2 CDs: lanternes, La Grande-Duchesse de Neige from Le Voyage dans volcan, Orphée aux Enfers, concert versions, and long de Gérolstein, Vert-Vert, La Vie la Lune Ba-Ta-Clan, Barbe-Bleue versions for choreographies) parisienne, Le Voyage dans la Jérôme Pernoo, cello | Orchestre National Soloists of the Orchestre lune and other orchestral works Les Musiciens du Louvre | de Montpellier | Pasdeloup | Orchestre de la Suisse Marc Minkowski Jean-Christophe Keck Jean-Christophe Keck Romande | Neeme Järvi DG CD 477 640-3 Universal/Accord 476 8999 Orphée 58 ORP68001/1 Chandos CHSA 5160
WP of Offenbach’s music for Sardou’s La Haine, with Dörte Lyssewski, Enrico Delamboye, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Farida Khelfa | Montpellier 2009 arc Ginot P hoto: M arc
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Reductions for cello and piano Hommage à Rossini [Introduction,] Prière et Boléro Grand Concerto („Concerto Militaire“) ISMN 979-0-2025-3508-0 ISMN 979-0-2025-3367-3 ISMN 979-0-2025-3168-6
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Selected chamber music Harmonies des bois La Prière de Moïse (1853) Décaméron dramatique – Les Roses du Bengale Le Soir | La Chanson de Berthe | Trio for two violins and Album du Théâtre Français (around 1840) Les Larmes de Jacqueline concertante cello with piano (1855) Six Valses sentimentales for cello and piano and organ accompaniment Six dances for solo piano for solo piano ISMN 979-0-2025-3507-3 ISNM 979-0-2025-3111-2 ISMN 979-0-2025-3066-5 ISNM 979-0-2025-3473-1 ora, New Y of Jacques O ffenbach by José M aria ora, cover based on a photograph ront F
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