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Gluck: Alceste

Kirsten Flagstad, Brian Sullivan, Francesco Valentino, Emery Darcy, Alois Pernerstorfer, Norman Scott

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Alberto Erede

  • Catalogue No: WLCD0014
  • Label: Walhall
  • Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

2 CDs

$12.75

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Contents

Gluck: Alceste

Work length2:07:41
  • Brian Sullivan (tenor), Emery Darcy (tenor), Alois Pernerstorfer (baritone), Norman Scott (bass), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Francesco Valentino (baritone)
  • Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
  • Alberto Erede
  • Recorded: 29 March 1952
  • Recording Venue: New York, United States

Announcement

Track length1:26

Act I: Overture

Track length7:45

Act I: Hear me, loyal friend (Heraut)

Track length3:00

Act I: Oh poor Admetus! (Chorus)

Track length3:09

Act I: My friends, the king (Alceste)

Track length2:53

Act I: Oh Gods (Alceste)

Track length5:22

Act I: Follow me to the temple (Alceste)

Track length3:46

Act I: Turn away, oh Phoebus (Grand-Pretre)

Track length4:40

Act I: You who from heaven's hightest (Grand-Pretre)

Track length5:18

Act I: Pantomime

Track length1:24

Act I: Phoebus does not remain unmoved (Grand-Pretre)

Track length4:24

Act I: Where am I? (Alceste)

Track length2:13

Act I: No! Let me die (Alceste)

Track length2:33

Act I: Now hear me the masters of fate (Alceste)

Track length1:07

Act I: Your deman is fulfilled (Grand-Pretre)

Track length2:15

Act I: Gods of eternal night (Alceste)

Track length5:07

Act II: Let delight follow hardship (Chorus)

Track length1:21

Act II: Ballet: Andante

Track length2:08

Act II: Ballet: Allegro

Track length1:59

Act II: March (music by F.-J. Gossec)

Track length1:19

Act II: Ah, the king (Voices)

Track length4:03

Act II: Alceste! (Admete)

Track length0:58

Act II: Adorn your brows with flowers (Chorus)

Track length1:02

Act II: Happy Alceste (Alceste)

Track length4:20

Act II: Alceste, your are all (Admete)

Track length3:43

Act II: Gods! Alceste you're crying (Admete)

Track length1:51

Act II: Life without you is not worth living (Alceste)

Track length1:52

Act II: You love me, I adore you (Admete)

Track length2:48

Act II: Alceste, I must die (Admete)

Track length2:28

Act II: Oh Gods! I turn to you (Alceste)

Track length2:20

Act II: I must not see your tears (Alceste)

Track length5:28

Act II: Now nothing is left but tears (Evandre)

Track length3:52

Act III: Oh Gods, that defy trepidation (Alceste)

Track length5:34

Act III: Gods, who have no heart (Alceste)

Track length2:25

Act III: Oh Admetus (Alceste)

Track length2:07

Act III: My dear, do have pity (Admete)

Track length3:00

Act III: The voice of Charon (Thanatos)

Track length4:18

Act III: You need no longer cry (Oracle)

Track length2:10

Act III: Ballet: Andante

Track length1:24

Act III: Ballet: Allegro

Track length2:29

Act III: Yes it is true, oh children dear (Admete)

Track length0:31

Act III: Ballet: Andante (music by F.-J. Gossec)

Track length0:57

Act III: Ballet: Andante (music by F.-J. Gossec)

Track length1:30

Act III: Chaconne

Track length3:22

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