Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Part Two
Tuesday 19 July 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Tuesday 26 July 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod examines the opera that transformed Gluck's standing - both among his contemporaries and for all time, and looks at the radical re-working Gluck undertook for the premiere in Paris, where the castrato voice had already fallen out of fashion.
Playlist
ORFEO ED EURIDICE -
Overture
Act I - Aria: 'Chiamo il mio ben cosi'
Act II complete
Derek Lee Ragin Orfeo
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, director
PHILIPS 434 094/5-2
CD1 T1 & 6
CD2 T10-17
ORPHEE ET EURYDICE -
Act III: - Air: 'J'ai perdu mon Eurydice' to end of Sc1
Richard Croft Orphee
Mireille Delunsch Eurydice
Marion Harousseau L'Amour
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski, director
ARCHIV 471582-2
CD2 T6-10
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