Along with Mark Stone, this disc features Bruce Ford, Diana Montague, Barry Banks, Majella Cullagh, Elizabeth Vidal, Paul Austin Kelly, Sine Budgaard, Roland Wood. Susie Beer, Richard Simpson & David Harper. This latest release in the "Il Salotto" series takes its title from a setting by Ambroise Thomas, and includes his most famous song, the enchanting Le soir, as well as other examples from the pens of Mercadante, Donizetti, Offenbach and Pacini and several of their lesser-known contemporaries. And there’s a sure winner in the sextet La Galopomanie, written by Amédée de Beauplan in 1840 in response to the latest dancing craze – the gallop!