Stradella Condition:New providing a brief escape from

providing a brief escape from the 18th-century style of the preceding movements

thunderous bass tones and bone-shattering drums that will leave you breathless

The warmth of the underlying sentiment allows the pieces to align with their own luminous ideal of Mediterranean beauty

This happened 4 years before Puccini started to work on the same content

Stradella Condition:New providing a brief escape fromWorld premiere recording! Cesar Franck's first opera staged for the first time! Known mainly for the few transcendent, harmonically adventurous instrumental works of his later years, Cesar Franck's first opera was composed when he was barely twenty years of age. Orchestrated by composer Luc Van Hove, from the autographic piano score manuscript. Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the Orchester & Chorus of the Opera Royal de Wallonie. Stage direction by Jaco van