Gromes, Raphaela | Offenbach | CD

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. He was born in Cologne in 1819 and died in Paris in 1889. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.

Offenbach is a one CD album of works by Jacques Offenbach for cello and piano and for two cellos, performed by Raphaela Gromes and Wen-Sinn Yang on cello and Julian Riem on piano. It was recorded at Studio 2 of Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich in October 2018 and includes a world premiere recording of Offenbach's Tarantelle. It was released by Sony Classical on 10 May 2019.