Charles Lecocq
- Tierolff Symphonic Winds, Ghislain Bellefroid
- Alexander Young, Fanely Revoil, Bernard Lefort, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudine Collart, Stanford Robinson
Biography
Though many of his comic operas and operettas were quite popular during their time, the music of Charles Lecocq is less popular in modern times than many of his contemporaries'. Lecocq was resistant to adapting his musical language, and critics have questioned the quality of much of the libretti he set. The most popular of his more than 40 stage works is the 1872 three-act comic opera La fille de Madame Angot. Beyond his lighter stage works, he also composed a grand opera (Plutus), a ballet (Le Cygne), several dozen songs, and pieces for piano, sometimes under the pseudonym Georges Stern. Lecocq died in Paris on October 24, 1918.