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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Gluck (composer)
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Offer, Gluck: Orfeo & Euridice Jakub Józef Orliński (Orfeo), Fatma Said (Amore), Elsa Dreisig (Euridice), Il Giardino d’Amore, Stefan Plewniak
Orliński is the mastermind behind the recording, made in his native Poland with a Polish orchestra and chorus. Credited as artistic director, he also sings the role of Orfeo with searing intensity,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Opera Choice
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Recommended(Limited Edition casebound deluxe)
Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky manages the edition’s higher keys well enough (Vienna’s Orfeo was a castrato alto, Naples’s a soprano) and sings sweetly so long as forceful declamation isn’t required. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky is an engaging Orfeo, who sometimes puts expression before purity of sound...I Barocchisti, conducted by Diego Fasolis, make sure Gluck’s drama comes leaping vividly from the loudspeakers. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2018
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Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Speiser, Elizabeth Gale, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Peter Hall, Raymond Leppard
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride Patricia Neway (Iphigénie), Pierre Mollet (Oreste), Léopold Simoneau (Pylade), Robert Massard (Thoas), Micheline Rolle (Diane)
Ensemble Vocal de Paris & Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Paris, Carlo Maria Giulini
Recorded during the 1952 Aix Festival, this first complete Tauride recording still packs a punch. — More…
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide Camilla Nylund (Iphigenie), Michelle Breedt (Clytemnestre), Christian Elsner (Achilles), Oliver Zwang (Agamemnon), Raimund Nolte (Calchas), Thilo Dahlmann (Arcas), Richard Logiewa (Anführer)
Chorus Musicus Köln, Das Neue Orchester, Christoph Spering
[Wagner's] adjustments seem admirable, but so is Gluck's original, so this new recording is mildly luxurious...Nylund in the title role is good...Elsner seems to me one of the most promising... — More…
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Kerstin Thorborg (mezzo), Kerstin Thorborg (Orfeo), Jarmila Novotna (Euridice), Marita Farell (Amore), Annamary Dickey (Blessed Spirit)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, RCA Victor Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf, Frieder Weissman, Karl Riedel
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride Recorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Véronique Gens (Iphigénie), Salomé Haller (Diane), Nicolas Testé (Agamemnon) & Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestre), Mireille Delunsch (Iphigénie), Laurent Alvaro (Thoas), Jean-François Lapointe (Oreste), Yann Beuron (Pylade) & Salomé Haller (Diane)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble &...
in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gluck: Alceste Vienna version
Kirsten Flagstad (Alceste), Raoul Jobin (Admeto), Alexander Young (Evandro), Marion Lowe (Ismene), Thomas Hemsley (Sommo Pontifice/Apollo/Infernal Spirit), Joan Clark (Eumelo), Rosemary Thayer (Aspasia), James Atkins (Herald/Oracle)
The Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones
It would not be idle to assert that Flagstad sounds like a young woman. Her top notes are strained and her intonation is often shaky. But she handles the words effectively enough to make you... — More…
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Catherine Dubosc & Suzie LeBlanc
Opera Lafayette Orchestra & Chorus, Ryan Brown
2 CDs
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