Composers: Offenbach
Compositions: Orphée aux Enfers ballet music
Performers: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Howard Griffiths
Catalogue Number: CPO CPO555301-2

Offenbach’s just-ended bicentenary threw up several discoveries, none more agreeable than the long-lost 32-minute ballet Le Royaume de Neptune (aka L’Atlantide). Added to his 1874 revision of Orpheus in the Underworld and unpublished during the composer’s lifetime, it was recently unearthed by Jean-Christophe Keck. In its first recording it receives crisply committed advocacy from the Howard Griffiths-led Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.