December 31 and 1er January being traditionally devoted to “light” music, we will be allowed a small preview of this disc to be released in Canada next Friday. It celebrates a Berlin musical character: Paul Lincke (1866-1946), the very famous composer of the air Berliner-Luft, a kind of popular hymn of the Berlin capital. This judicious monograph allows us to discover, in addition to the famous “hit”, eight other overtures, waltz suites and “concert pieces” by this master of Berlin operetta, who continued, in the Kaiser’s Germany, of an art worn high by Offenbach. Lincke’s period of glory was the turn of the 20the century, the Berliners being then (from 1910) overtaken by the Viennese, Franz Lehár (1870-1948) in the lead. Enriching an impressive collection of sound monographs gender outsiders (Fahrbach, Bilse, Gung’l, Eilenberg). CPO is doing very useful work here.
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