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Gluck: Demofoonte

Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

Gluck: Demofoonte

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Its distinctive qualities communicate themselves forcefully across large spans of Brilliant Classics’s three-CD set, qualities of vocal and instrumental freshness and rhythmic vitality, of keen...

Opera, May 2021

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Gluck: Demofoonte

Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

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The first recording of the opera Demofoonte by Gluck!

Gluck was a great admirer of the poet Metastasio and he composed some 20 operas on his texts. Demofoonte, on texts by Metastasio, was composed by Gluck for the Carnival season in Milan, premiered in 1743.

Not one complete score of this opera survived, and Alan Curtis, the American scholar and conductor collected all the surviving arias from different sources, and recomposed the lost recitatives in Gluck-style, taking as a model the opera Ipermestra, which Gluck composed for the following year 1744 and which survived complete.

This wonderful performance was recorded in 2015, one year before the death of Alan Curtis. It is a worthy and touching legacy of the art of this great conductor and his ensemble Il Complesso Barocco, together with a fine line up of international vocal soloists, stars of the Early Music scene

  • Release date: 4th Dec 2020
  • Label: Brilliant Classics
  • Catalogue number: 95283
  • Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Gluck: Demofoonte
Work length4:41
Sinfonia. I. Allegro
Track length1:50
Sinfonia. II. Andante
Track length1:46
Sinfonia. III. Presto
Track length1:05
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 1
Work length7:09
Credimi, o padre (Dircea, Matusio)
Track length1:53
O più tremar non voglio (Matusio)
Track length5:16
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 2
Work length12:54
Se il mio principe almeno … (Dircea, Timante)
Track length4:50
In te spero, o sposo amato (Dircea)
Track length8:04
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 3
Work length8:25
Ma viene il real genitor … (Timante, Demofoonte, Adrasto)
Track length3:56
Per lei fra l'armi (Demofoonte)
Track length4:29
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 4
Work length8:38
Ma che vi fece, o stelle … (Timante)
Track length0:38
Sperai vicino al lido (Timante)
Track length8:00
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 5
Work length9:58
Marcia
Track length1:10
Ma che t'affanna, o prence? … (Creusa, Cherinto)
Track length2:02
T'intendo, ingrata (Cherinto)
Track length3:50
Dove? Ferma - Scene 6: Dimmi, Cherinto - Scene 7: Numi! A Creusa? (Creusa, Cherinto, Timante)
Track length2:56
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 7
Work length4:06
Non curo l'affetto (Creusa)
Track length4:06
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 8
Work length5:45
Oh dei! Perché tanto furor! … (Cherinto)
Track length0:43
Il suo leggiadro viso (Cherinto)
Track length5:02
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 9
Work length4:58
Olà ministri (Adraasto, Matusio, Timante, Dircea)
Track length0:35
Padre perdona … Oh pene! (Dircea)
Track length4:23
Demofoonte, Act I Scene 10
Work length6:40
Appresso a lei … (Timante, Matusio)
Track length0:31
Gemo in un punto e fremo (Timante)
Track length6:09
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 1
Work length7:02
Creusa intendo … (Demofoonte, Creusa, Adrastro)
Track length0:58
Tu sai chi son (Creusa)
Track length6:04
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 2
Work length7:12
Che alterezza ha costei! … (Demofoonte, Timante)
Track length3:56
Prudente mi chiedi? (Timante)
Track length3:16
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 3
Work length7:38
Dunque m'insulta ognun? … (Demofoonte)
Track length0:25
Se tronca un ramo (Demofoonte)
Track length7:13
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 4
Work length4:17
È l'unica speranza … (Matusio, Timante)
Track length0:35
È soccorso d'incognita mano (Matusio)
Track length3:42
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 5
Work length8:01
Ah principessa … (Dircea, Creusa)
Track length1:15
Se tutti i mali miei (Dircea)
Track length6:46
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 6
Work length6:56
Che incanto è la beltà! (Creusa, Cherinto)
Track length1:40
No, non chiedo, amate stelle (Cherinto)
Track length5:16
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 7
Work length5:25
Se immaginar potessi … (Creusa)
Track length0:20
Felice età dell’oro (Creusa)
Track length5:05
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 8
Work length4:18
Santi numi del cielo … (Dircea, Timante) - Scene 10: Indegno. Non fuggirmi. T'arresta … [Demofoonte, Timante, Dircea]
Track length4:18
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 10
Work length2:52
Perfidi! Già che in vita (Demofoonte)
Track length2:52
Demofoonte, Act II Scene 11
Work length12:32
Sposo. Consorte … (Dircea, Timante)
Track length3:00
La destra ti chiedo (Timante, Dircea)
Track length9:32
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 1
Work length4:55
Taci … (Timante, Adrasto)
Track length0:53
Non odi consiglio? (Adrasto)
Track length4:02
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 2
Work length10:13
Perché bramar la vita? … (Timante, Cherinto)
Track length3:42
Nel tuo dono io veggo assai (Cherinto)
Track length6:31
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 3
Work length6:20
Oh figlio, oh sposa … (Timante, Matusio)
Track length3:03
Ah che né mal verace (Matusio)
Track length3:17
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 4
Work length2:24
Misero me! (Timante)
Track length2:24
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 5
Work length8:23
Timante. Ah, principessa … (Creusa, Timante, Demofoonte, Adrasto, Dircea)
Track length1:46
Misero pargoletto (Timante)
Track length6:37
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 6
Work length5:37
Sieguilo, Adrasto … (Demofoonte)
Track length0:44
Odo il suono de queruli accenti (Demofoonte)
Track length4:53
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 7
Work length4:41
E tu Dircea, che fai? … (Creusa)
Track length0:40
Che mai risponderti (Dircea)
Track length4:01
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 8
Work length6:16
Qual terra è questa! … (Creusa)
Track length0:31
Non dura una sventura (Creusa)
Track length5:45
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 9
Work length2:56
L re per tutto ti ricerca (Adrasto, Timante, Matusio, Dircea) - Scene 11: Non t'ingannan, Timante [Demofoonte, Timante]
Track length2:56
Demofoonte, Act III Scene 12
Work length0:37
Par maggiore ogni diletto (Coro)
Track length0:37

Awards and reviews

  • Opera
    May 2021
    Disc of the Month

May 2021

Its distinctive qualities communicate themselves forcefully across large spans of Brilliant Classics’s three-CD set, qualities of vocal and instrumental freshness and rhythmic vitality, of keen dramatic responsiveness to emotional and character depiction and differentiation; indeed, they’ve supplied something of a revelation
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