Auber/ Kabongo/ Franco - Le Philtre Release:Le Philtre Naxos For this new collaboration

For this new collaboration

" This magnificent instrument

Superstars Billy Crystal

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

Auber/ Kabongo/ Franco - Le Philtre Release:Le Philtre Naxos For this new collaborationThe 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,