Most of us know our Offenbach through a secondary source; we have heard it either through Gaîté Parisienne, which is Offenbach as rescored by modern composer Manuel Rosenthal, or through the various versions of his opera Les contes d'Hoffman, a work that Offenbach did not live to finish. The "authentic" Offenbach is recorded in manuscripts that are scattered all over the world, which musicologist Jean-Christophe Keck has been going to great lengths to gather up for publication in his Edition Offenbach-Keck, issued through ...
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Most of us know our Offenbach through a secondary source; we have heard it either through Gaîté Parisienne, which is Offenbach as rescored by modern composer Manuel Rosenthal, or through the various versions of his opera Les contes d'Hoffman, a work that Offenbach did not live to finish. The "authentic" Offenbach is recorded in manuscripts that are scattered all over the world, which musicologist Jean-Christophe Keck has been going to great lengths to gather up for publication in his Edition Offenbach-Keck, issued through Boosey & Hawkes. Keck's advocacy of Offenbach has done the composer some good -- it has led to the revival of such "lost" works as the opera Les Fées du Rhin and to a critical edition of Les contes d'Hoffman that seems to settle the matter of its intended shape. Offenbach Romantique, the Archiv release featuring Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, utilizes Keck's editions as a point of departure and purports to give us a different spin on Offenbach's music that is closer to...
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