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Edmond Audran's breakthrough work was the operetta La mascotte, written in 1880 and first performed at the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens on December 29, 1880. This is the lively overture to the operetta.
This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Orchestra; Jean-Pierre Wallez, conductor.
Download this work now through May 4, 2009.
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Weber composed his second piano sonata in Berlin in 1816, shortly before his appointment as Kapellmeister at Dresden was confirmed.
This recording is performed Alexis Golovin, pianist, and Benoit Fromanger, flutist.
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