Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Part One
Monday 18 July 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Monday 25 July 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
In the course of his lengthy career, Gluck wrote over 50 operas, but only a handful are ever performed today. Yet he is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern opera. Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of the man who fundamentally reformed the nature of opera.
Playlist
ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE -
'What is life to me without thee' (extract)
Kathleen Ferrier
DECCA 458 270-2 T22
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO -
'Se mai senti spirarti sul volto'
Cecilia Bartoli
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck, director
DECCA 467 2482 T7
LE CINESI -
Recit and Final Quartet
Sivene Isabelle Poulenard
Tangia Anne Sofie von Otter
Lisinga Gloria Banditelli
Silango Guy de Mey
Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum basiliensis
Rene Jacobs
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI CDC747752-2
T10-11
L'INNOCENZA GIUSTIFICATA -
Part 2, sc 6 to end
Cappella Coloniensis
Christopher Moulds, director
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON DG 82876 58796-2
CD 2 T10-19
DON JUAN - final act
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil, conductor
SONY CLASSICAL SK 53119
T24-32
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