Auber/ Kabongo/ Franco - Le Philtre Release:Le Philtre Naxos Superstars Billy Crystal

Superstars Billy Crystal

For this new collaboration

The opening drum break of 'Esconderijo' is a sampler's dream and has already been reinterpreted by the Turkish Rapper Anil Piyanci

" This magnificent instrument

The music included is by Mozart

Auber/ Kabongo/ Franco - Le Philtre Release:Le Philtre Naxos Superstars Billy CrystalThe two leading operatic composers of their time were Rossini and Auber, one now fted, the other largely overlooked. In 1831 Auber and his long standing librettist Eugne Scribe produced Le Philtre, which took the concept of petit opra to the extreme, even outdoing Rossini's Le Comte Ory in depicting a rural setting peopled not with Arcadian shepherds but with ordinary country folk. Auber's Franco Italian style can be heard in the work's ensembles,