MAKING OVERTURES
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul: Joseph
Franz Joseph Haydn: Overture to an English Opera
Bedrich Smetana: Oldrich and Bozena
Ludwig van Beethoven. The Creatures of Prometheus
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Platee
Franz Schubert: Italian Overture in D Major
Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Theatrical Introduction No. 5 in D Major Ferdinando Paer: La Camilla ossia II Sotterraneo
Jacques Offenbach: Dr. Ox (first recording)
George Frederic Handel: Imeneo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
Johann Fasch: Suite No. 2 in D Major
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boreades

Ludwig van Beethoven. The Ruins of Athens

Making Overtures

Here is an astonishing
collection of the known and less well known, by familiar composers and unfamiliar ones.

A couple are riotously funny (e.g. Smetana and Offenbach), others are noble, dramatic, melodramatic or charming.

First recording of Offenbach’s klezmer-y Dr. Ox!