Gluck - Alceste
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Gluck: Alceste
Catherine Naglestad (Alceste), Donald Kaasch (Admète), Bernhard Schneider (Evandre), Catriona Smith (Le Coryphée), Johan Rydh (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon/Dieu infernal), Nam Soo Kim (La voix de l'Oracle), Motti Kastón (Apollon), Michael Ebbecke (Hercule), Wolfgang Probst (Un Héraut)
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Naglestad's Alceste is passionate and torn, voluptuous of voice and compelling on stage. Carydis delivers wonderfully tasteful, intelligent Gluck, full of detail and exquisitely phrased. The... —
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Gluck: Alceste
Maurits Sillem (harpsichord), Philip Gelling (bass), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Matthew Best (bass), Robert Tear (tenor), Jonathan Summers (baritone)
Royal Opera House Orchestra at Covent Garden, Royal Opera Chorus, Charles Mackerras
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Gluck: Alceste
Maria Callas (Alceste), Renato Gavarini (Admète), Paolo Silveri (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Rolando Panerai (Apollon), Giuseppe Zampieri (Evandre), Nicola Zaccaria (La voix de l'Oracle), Silvio Maionica (Dieu infernal), Enrico Campi (Un Héraut)
Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Gluck: Alceste
Rose Bampton (Alceste), René Maison (Admète), Leonard Warren (High Priest), George Cehanovsky (Herald), Alessio De Paolis (Evandre), Arthur Kent (Voice of Apollon), Marita Farell (Woman), Maxine Stellman, Helen Olheim, Wilfred Engelman (Leaders of the People)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra...
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Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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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... —
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Gluck: Alceste
Ethel Semser (Alceste), Enzo Seri (Admète), Jean Mollien (Evandre), Lucien Mans (La voix de l'Oracle), Bernard Demigny (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Jean Hoffman (Un Héraut/Hercule), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Paris Philharmonia Orchestra, Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, Paris Philharmonic Chorus,...
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Gluck: Alceste
Vienna version
Jessye Norman (Alceste), Nicolai Gedda (Admète), Tom Krause (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Bernd Weikl (Apollon), Robert Gambill (Evandre) & Siegmund Nimsgern (Hercule), Roland Bracht (La voix de l'Oracle), Kurt Rydl (Dieu infernal)
Bavarian State Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Serge Baudo
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Jonas Degerfeldt, tenor, Justin Lavender, Lars Martinsson, baritone, Teresa Ringholz, Miriam Treichl, soprano
Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra, Drottningholm Theatre Chorus, Arnold Ostman
Almost all critics of Gluck's two versions of Alceste – the Italian original, first given in Vienna in 1767, and the French revision or recomposition given in Paris in 1776 – regard the latter... —
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Gluck: Alceste
Vienna version
Kirsten Flagstad (Alceste), Raoul Jobin (Admeto), Thomas Hemsley (Apollo/Sommo Pontifice), Alexander Young (Evandro), James Atkins (Herald/Oracle), Marion Lowe (Ismene), Joan Clark (Eumelo), Rosemary Thayer (Aspasia)
Geraint Jones Singers, Geraint Jones Orchestra, Geraint Jones
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