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Browse: Gluck - Alceste

Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–87)Genre: Opera
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    131 CD's + 3 Blu-ray Videos + 1 DVD Video

    $396.25

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  • Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves

    Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

    No digital booklet included

  • 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...

    No digital booklet included

  • 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

    No digital booklet included

  • 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

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Remastered Recordings 1949–1964

    Maria Callas (soprano), Gino Bechi (Nabucco), Maria Callas (Abigaille), Amalia Pini (Fenena), Gino Sinimberghi (Ismaele), Iginio Riccò (Gran Sacerdote), Luciano della Pergola (Abdallo), Silvana Tenti (Anna), Rolando Panerai (Amfortas), Africo Baldelli (Parsifal), Maria Callas (Kundry), Boris Christoff...

    Perhaps the most thrilling of all the sets is the performance from Berlin of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor…The encored Sextet is phenomenal, the Mad Scene even more so…Callas was a passionate... More…

    42 CDs + 3 Blu-rays

    $122.25

    This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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

    No digital booklet included

  • 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... More…

    3 CDs

    $25.75

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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... More…

    3 CDs

    $30.50

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    No digital booklet included

  • 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

    No digital booklet included