Works by Adolphe Adam?

[Rossini]

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

[JimL]

I'd actually like to see what, if anything Adam composed besides vocal or stage music.  Or was he the prototype for Délibes?

[Alan Howe]

Délibes

C'est Delibes, je crois.

[eschiss1]

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.

[JimL]

Well, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, I knew there was an accent in there somewhere.

[eschiss1]

See e.g.


Capriccio on a Protestant Chorale, Op.100 (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.)

[Alan Howe]

Well, 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.)

[mikehopf]

That's an acute observation, Alan.

[Alan Howe]

Certainly not a grave one...

[eschiss1]

Aiiii! (goo.)

[Wheesht]

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.