Offenbach Overtures

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Jacques Offenbach: Overtures to Orphée aux Enfers, Barbe-Bleue, La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein, La belle Hélène, Vert-Vert; Barcarolle from Les contes dHoffmann: Marking the 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Deutsche Grammophon makes available again on vinyl Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmonikers recording of the composers most famous operetta overtures and the Barcarolle. [] as further evidence of the humanity suspected to be lurking behind that parched-leather face, imperiously eyeing us from countless record jackets, try the Offenbach overtures supermaestro did, ever so lithely and insinuatingly, with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1981. LA Times on Karajans Offenbach Overtures

180g pressings by Optimal, mastered from original sources. Sleeves present artwork adapted from the original artwork