Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Iestyn Davies (Orfeo), Sophie Bevan (Euridice), Rebecca Bottone (Amor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates is, like Gluck, wonderfully radical. Where other directors smooth over disjunctions, he revels in rupture…This is directorship at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast…Davies... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
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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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Special offer. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBernarda Fink (Orfeo) Veronica Cangemi (Euridice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Amor)
Freiburger Barockorchester & Rias Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs conducts an urgent, pungently characterised performance — More…
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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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
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orfeo), Eva Liebau (Euridice) & Regula Mühlemann (Amore)
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks
At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Kathleen Ferrier: The Complete EMI Recordings
RecommendedKathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo), Greet Koeman (Euridice), Nel Duval (Amore)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Chorus & Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera, Bruno Walter, Herbert...
The voice is unique, its emotional power palpable after all these years. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd April 2012
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Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Speiser, Elizabeth Gale, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Peter Hall, Raymond Leppard
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Wolfgang Meyer (harpsichord), Hertha Klust (piano), Günther Weissenborn (piano), Karl Engel (piano), Jörg Demus (Piano)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor, Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonie-Orchester...
This is one of Fischer-Dieskau's least known yet most riveting recitals; a vocal tour de force from 1974 that found the prolific baritone at the height of his Protean powers. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Shirley Verrett (Orfeo), Anna Moffo (Euridice), Judith Raskin (Amor)
Coro Polifonico di Roma, Colleguium Musicum Italicum, Renato Fasano
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Risë Stevens (Orfeo), Lisa Della Casa (Euridice), Roberta Peters (Amor)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux
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