Reverie au bord de la mer (Reverie by the Sea; Andante A. 155)

In 1848, when Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) returned to Paris from his highly successful concert tour hewas hailed in Le Corsaire as "le pr?sident du violoncelle" and in Le M?nestrel as "le violoncelliste pittoresque par excellence." His own performance of the R?VERIE AU BORD DELA MER in Paris was described as a "m?lancholique et suave inspiration qu'on croirait emprunt?e ? la muse de Schubert [a melancholy and suave inspiration that one would believe was borrowed from Schubert's muse]." The cello work is a transcription of one of Offenbach's own songs for voice and piano entitled DAS DEUTSCHE VATERLIED. This edition has been edited by Michael Kaye and Emilio Col?n.