Hi everyone,
does anyone perhaps have any recordings of Adolphe Adam's operas, and especially La poupee de Nuremberg? I know the recording which is on yt, but there should be at least one more which was recorded on LP - can't find it though.
Thanks in advance!
Paul
I'd actually like to see what, if anything Adam composed besides vocal or stage music. Or was he the prototype for Délibes?
QuoteDélibes
C'est Delibes, je crois.
Adam wrote a few (if one calls 100-plus a "few") early piano variation works and such, far as I know- one finds them listed in HMB and they are in a few libraries still. I don't know of anything "substantial" by him outside the dramatic vocal sphere, though.
(Ouais - Clément Philibert Léo Delibes - D-underemphasized"uh"-libes, rather than D-ay-libes. Je crois ainsi moi-même.
Well, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, I knew there was an accent in there somewhere.
See e.g.
Capriccio on a Protestant Chorale, Op.100 (http://imslp.org/wiki/Capriccio_sur_un_choral_protestant,_Op.100_(Adam,_Adolphe)) (on the chorale from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots (I'm guessing the same one as is the basis of Liszt's organ work?...); for piano solo, pub. (correction!) 1836 by Mori & Lavenu, London.)
QuoteWell, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, I knew there was an accent in there somewhere.
You're right, Jim. It's in his first name - Léo. (Or, more fully: Clément Philibert Léo.)
That's an acute observation, Alan.
Certainly not a grave one...
Aiiii! (goo.)
Apparently, Delibes was sometimes accused of plagiarism and referred to as "Le Dieb" (the thief) — so no accent in his name... Thought I'd put in my tuppence worth before the thread, quite rightly, returns to Adam.