Blessed Spirit: A Gluck Retrospective

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The three singers here all make a good showing, Ailish Tynan with her direct engagement with recitative...and as a sentient, fearful Euridice...[Stéphany] scores highly as Clytemnestra in Iphigénie... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2010
Catalogue No: WHLIVE0037
Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Length: 79 minutes

Gluck: Il Ciel mi vuol oppresso (from La Semiramide riconosciuta)

Work length4:46

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: Se povero il ruscello (from Ezio)

Work length8:11

$1.60

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (from La clemenza di Tito)

Work length10:28

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Berenice, che fai?' from Antigono

Work length4:28

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Perche, se tanti siete' from Antigono

Work length3:56

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Ombre tacite e chete' from Telemaco

Work length2:55

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Dall' orrido soggiorno' from Telemaco

Work length2:35

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Elisa? Aminta? E sogno?' from Il re pastore

Work length1:11

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Vanne a regnar, ben mio' from Il re pastore

Work length5:38

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: Non jamais un tel époux (from L'Ivrogne corrigé)

Work length2:49

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Qual vita e questa mai' from Orfeo ed Euridice

Work length1:21

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Che fiero momento' from Orfeo ed Euridice

Work length2:42

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Ecco son nuovo tormento'

Work length3:31

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Che faro senza Euridice?'

Work length3:34

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Figli, diletti figli!' from Alceste

Work length2:36

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Ah per questo gia stanco' from Alceste

Work length4:42

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: O del mio dolce ardor (from Paride ed Elena)

Work length2:58

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Dieux puissants que j'atteste' from Iphigenie en Aulide

Work length2:50

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: 'Jupiter, lance la foudre' from Iphigenie en Aulide

Work length2:00

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: On s’étonnerait moins que la saison nouvelle (from Armide)

Work length3:36

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: Ian Page introduction to encore

Work length0:25

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

Gluck: Ah, lo veggo (from Paride ed Elena)

Work length2:18

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Ian Page, Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan, Anna Stéphany
Classical Opera

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Favourites, Christoph Willibald Gluck

In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Gluck's birth on Tuesday, Katherine rounds up some favourite recordings of his operas on CD and DVD.

The Classical Opera Company was founded in 1997 by conductor Ian Page. It specialises in the music of Mozart and his contemporaries, performing with its own period-instrument orchestra, and is emerging as one of Britain’s most exciting and highly regarded young arts organisations. It has attracted considerable critical and public acclaim, not only for the high quality of its performances but also for its imaginative programming and, in particular, its ability to discover and nurture outstanding young singers.

“The Classical Opera Company feel like a true ensemble, and their generous acting and musicianship made the evening a joy from start to finish.” The Independent on Sunday

“My personal pick for giving this year is the Classical Opera Company's glorious The A-Z of Mozart Opera, which is fresh, diverse, insightful and illuminating (everything that such recital anthologies usually fail to be).” David Vickers, Gramophone

Reviews

September 2010

The three singers here all make a good showing, Ailish Tynan with her direct engagement with recitative...and as a sentient, fearful Euridice...[Stéphany] scores highly as Clytemnestra in Iphigénie en Aulide, her smoky timbre encompassing the anger of Agamemnon's wife...Sophie Bevan cuts a charmingly determined figure as Colette

September 2010

...there is some first-rate dramatic music here...Sophie Bevan sings the Tito excerpt with such intensity as to make one almost sympathise with Sesto...'Che Faro' [is] taken at a cracking pace by Ian Page and sung with desperate urgency by Anna Stephany...This is a terrific, unmissable disc.

September 2010

Conductor, instrumentalists and singers alike, mirroring Gluck's reformist aims from the 1760s onwards, make sounds the servant of the sense, with stylish, eloquent and dramatic music-making of the highest order

July 2014

This is a quite wonderful souvenir of a live concert given by The Classical Opera Company at the Wigmore Hall in January 2010, and focusing on operatic arias for soprano and mezzo. The stand-out singer is Anglo-French mezzo Anna Stéphany, who strikes exactly the right balance between classical hauteur and slow-burning histrionics for this music. Electrifying.

23rd January 2011

[Gluck's] music is fiery. Ian Page understands this, as his live recording of excerpts from a dozen operas bears witness. His soloists deliver the long-breathed melodic lines expressively, and Anna Stéphany is a strong Clytemnestra.

23rd May 2010

Ian Page's subtle survey explores the development of certain textures...Ailish Tynan, Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany blend beautifully in the brief trio from Paride ed Elena...the playing is consistently incisive.

26th June 2010

In January, Ian Page’s young British troupe ransacked the [Gluck] treasure house with delightful results in a Wigmore Hall concert. And here it is, with Sophie Bevan wonderfully anguished in her aria from Alceste, Anna Stéphany darkly dramatic...[Page's group are] incisively suave.

Blessed Spirit: A Gluck Retrospective

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