Ôßôëïò: Round About Offenbach Frere Jacques Gianluigi Trovesi: clarinets, Gianni Coscia: accordion With an essay by Umberto Eco “Our two friends have their roots in jazz and one’s curiosity is aroused by the challenge they take up with the mode of the can-can before, without our noticing it (or maybe without noticing it themselves) slipping into swing and rhythm ‘n’ blues – certainly not in the search for Offenbach, maybe in search of themselves, or out of the conviction that basically the story of music goes its own way, through evocation and anticipation, as if they were convinced that every composer wrote to anticipate an infinity of music to come: theirs in particular, obviously.” So writes Umberto Eco in his third consecutive liner note for the duo of Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia, following on from “In Cerca di cibo” and “Round About Weill”, discs which honoured respectively Milanese composer Fiorenzo Carpi and Kurt Weill with affectionate, free and witty reinterpretations. They now travel, by the scenic route, “Round about Offenbach”. Their composed and improvised responses to Offenbach revolve around their arrangements of his works including selections from “La Belle Helene”, “La Perichole”, “La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein”, and “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”. Ôßôëïé   1. Sognando Helene / Oui! c'est un reve 2. Ah! que les hommes sont betes / Mon Dieu, mon Dieu 3. Piff, paff, pouff / La Duchessa nei caraibi 4. Tangoffenbach 5. Ah! vivre deux / L'eccentrico inventore 6. Et moi? / No, tu no! 7. La voix 8. Parton le barcarole 9. Beguine del fauno 10.Sei Italiano? / No! ... Je suis Bresilien 11.La Duchessa della Czarda 12.C'est une chanson d'amour 13.Galop ... trotterellando 14.Le jugement de Paris / Ma! Non so! 15.Dedicated to Helene and her little birds 16.Metamorfosi ... Pour seduire 17.Minuetto / Olympia 18.Ouverture / Un Americano a Troia 19.Epilogue Listen