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Gluck - Alceste (John Eliot Gardiner, Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves) [2002]
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Gluck - Alceste (John Eliot Gardiner, Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves) [2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 2cd, 608.49 MB
Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog Number: 470 293-2
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 2cd, 608.49 MB
Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog Number: 470 293-2
Thus spake Shaw, writing about Gluck towards the end of the 19th century. Shaw went on to allege that the musical culture of his time had not fully caught up with this great master and reformer of opera, and the very thoughtful and instructive essay that Gardiner contributes here suggests to me that there may still, in the third millennium, be a little catching up to do. Whatever one thinks of Gluck, either as a composer or as a musical dramatist or as an operatic rationalist and reformer, it seems to me that he was very clear-headed in one basic respect - he knew the difference between musical drama and musical tableau. Classical drama has an inherent tendency towards tableau, with its statues, white-robed women, prophets, deities and heroes. This still tempts producers of Gluck's operas into statuesque stagings with a certain immobility about them. I don't necessarily find fault with this, what I do suggest is that Gluck's operas can't all be viewed in the same way. Even when the libretto is, like that of Armide, an uneasy combination of the dramatic with the statuesque, Gluck is always clear in his mind which mode he is operating in. When it comes to Alceste, the book of the opera is clearly dramatic all the way through. Gluck can see this, and Gardiner's remarks as well as his direction suggest to me that he sees it this way too.
Tracklisting:
CD1
01. Overture
02. Acte I. Choeur: Dieux, rendez-nous roi, notre pète! / Recitatif: Peuples, ecoutez!
03. Choeur à deux parties: Ô malheureux Admète! / Recitatif: Sujets du roi le plus aime
04. Air: Grands Dieux! du destin qui m'accable (Alceste)
05. Pantomime
06. Récitatif: Dieu puissant (Grand-Prêtre) / Choeur et solo: Dieu puissant
07. Récitatif: Dispensateur de la lumière (Grand-Prêtre)
08. Récitatif: Immortel Apollon! (Alceste)
09. Récitatif: Apollon est sensible à vos gémissements (Grand-Prêtre)
10. Récitatif: Où suis-je? Ô malheureux Alceste! (Alceste)
11. Solo: Tes destins sont remplis (Grand-Prêtre, Alceste)
12. Air: Ombres, laves, pâles compagnes de la mort (Alceste)
13. Acte II. Choeur: Que les plus doux transports succèdent aux alarmes!
14. Ballet / Choeur avec la danse: Que les plus doux transports
15. Récitatif: Ô mon roi! (Plusieurs gens du Peuple, Evandre, Admète)
16. Récitatif: Alceste! - Cher époux! (Admète, Alceste)
CD2
01. Choeur avec la danse: Parez vos fronts de fleurs nouvelles
02. Air: Ô Dieux! soutenez mon courage (Alceste)
03. Air: Bannis la crainte et les alarmes (Admète)
04. Air: Je n'ai jamais chéri la vie (Alceste)
05. Récitatif: Grands Dieux! pour mon époux (Alceste)
06. Air: Ah! malgré moi mon faible Coeur (Alceste)
07. Acte III. Récitatif: Nous ne pouvons trop répandre de larmes (Evandre, Coryphée)
08. Récitatif: Après de longs travaux (Hercule, Evandre, Coryphée, choeur)
09. Récitatif: Au pouvoir de la mort je saurai la ravir (Hercule)
10. Récitatif: Grands Dieux, soutenez mon courage (Alceste)
11. Air: Ah! Divnités implacable! (Alceste)
12. Récitatif: Ciel! Admète! (Alceste, Admète)
13. Air: Alseste, au nom des Dieux! (Admète)
14. Air: Caron t'appelle, entend sa voix (Un Dieu Infernal)
15. Cheur des Dieux infernaux et soli: Alceste! Le jour fuit
16. Soli et cheur: Ami, leur rage est vaine (Hercule, Admète, choeur)
17. Récitatif: Poursuit, ô digne fils du souverain des Cieux (Apollon)
18. Trio: Reçois, Dieu bienfaisant (Alceste, Admète, Hercule)
19. Récitatif: Ô mes amis! Alseste m'est rendue (Admète, Alceste, choeur)
20. Chaconne
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Performer:
Alceste, epouse a Admete – Anne Sofie von Otter
Admète, roi de Thessalie – Paul Groves
Le Grand-Prêtre d’Apollon / Hercule – Dietrich Henschel
Evandre, un des chfs du Peuple – Yann Beuron
Un Hérault d’armes / Apollo, protecteur de la maison d’Admete – Ludovic Tézier
Oracle / Un Dieu Infernal – Nicolas Testé
Coryphées – Joanne Lunn, Katharine Fuge
Alceste’s Alter Ego – Gladys Massenot
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Chor
Conductor - Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Rec. 9-12.10.1999