The overture to LA JUIVE - recordings?

Started by pcc, Wednesday 02 April 2014, 02:39

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Is there any recorded performance out there which includes the entirety of the overture to LA JUIVE?  A recent German production was noted as including it, and it's big- about 13 minutes.  All recorded performances I've heard use the original prelude or a severely cut version of the overture. It's notable because it uses the ensuing cabaletta to "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" as its principal subject, which is a wonderful melody, but as that cabaletta is almost always cut you never get to hear it anywhere in the opera. I've played it in the piano duet version Schirmer put out in 1909, and it's really very good (save some repetition in the coda, which is, however, less obvious than that in the coda to Donizetti's otherwise excellent LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX overture).  I know it was not used at the first performance, but I'd still like to hear it.