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Composer: Franz von Suppé
- Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Dario Salvi, conductor
Date: 2022
Label: Naxos
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Mention of music and Jules Verne’s fantastical novel Around the World in 80 Days had me thinking of the film music by Victor Young and Hans Zimmer - especially Young. I had never associated Franz von Suppé with incidental music. Better known, if at all, as a profuse practitioner of operetta he also dipped his ink in the world of music for spoken theatre. There is at least one other such example of the genre: Suppé’s Mozart on Naxos 8.575383; again, with the same forces as here. If Marco Polo could issue six CDs of Suppé’s overtures of which Poet and Peasant and Schöne Galathée have for decades been celebrated examples, then perhaps Naxos will continue to grace us with further delving into his incidental music.
The stage version of Jules Verne’s picaresque Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen was made not long after the novel hit the streets. Rescued from a dusty oubliette, Suppé’s music here receives its first recording; it had first seen light of day at Vienna’s Carltheater just a year after Verne’s novel took society by storm.
The music is sensationally and fulsomely recorded. The readings are stylish and the disc boasts a big sound with quiet quiets and obstreperous fortes. As a listening experience, this amounts to an extended and agreeable travelogue suite. The style often comes with a measure of charm, strut or bombast. You can think in terms of the geographical suites of Charpentier and Massenet, the incidental music of Bizet and Má Vlast by Smetana. The movements are spick and span - short and sweet. None is more than 7:17 and the briefest one is just 0.15. Most come in around 2-3 minutes. The character of these pieces places them in the world of vignettes rather than dances. The mood encompasses a storm, music-box carillons, whirlygigs, anthems (‘God Save the Queen’), hurdy-gurdies, scenas, brobdingnagian marches, swirling Tunisian heat haze, thunder-rolls and even a gun-shot. Some ideas are repeated and these serve to unify the sequence.
The truly excellent full-fat notes are jointly by conductor Dario Salvia and Robert Ignatius Letellier. Naxos have included no fewer than seven contemporaneous photos/plates.
If not devastatingly original, it is triumphantly stylish and gives much pleasure.
-- Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International
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Franz von Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of his operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures remain popular, many of them having been used in soundtracks for films, cartoons, advertisements, and so on, in addition to being frequently played at symphonic "pops" concerts.
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Dario Salvi (born 1975) is a British-Italian conductor, researcher and musicologist. Born in Northern Italy and currently residing in Scotland, Salvi has received musical training in both Italy and the UK. He is a professional bass guitarist and has toured the world playing for bands and orchestras. He is widely regarded as a fast-rising name in opera and operetta, and is known for his expressive gestures and precision of style. Salvi has guest conducted and recorded opera and operetta across the USA, the Middle East and Europe. He is a recording artist with Naxos, and has published three books on Viennese operetta.
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