Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice / Bumbry, Rothenberger, Neumann

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 19, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GLUCK, CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD
    • PERFORMER
      Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Vaclav Neumann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 19, 2013
    • UPC
      5028421947037
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI94703
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Opera / Operetta / Oratorio
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    2. Act I Scene 1: Ah, se intorno a quest'urna funesta (Chorus, Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    3. Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Basta, basta, o compagni (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    4. Act I Scene 1: Dance No. 1

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    5. Act I Scene 1: Ah, se intorno a quest'urna funesta (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    6. Act I Scene 1: Aria: Chiamo il mio ben così (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    7. Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Euridice, ombra cara (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    8. Act I Scene 1: Aria: Cerco il mio ben così (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    9. Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Euridice, Euridice! (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    10. Act I Scene 1: Aria: Piango il mio ben così (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    11. Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Numi, Barbari Numi (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    12. Act I Scene 2: Recitative: T'assiste Amore! (Amore, Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Ruth-Margret Pütz, Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    13. Act I Scene 2: Aria: Gli sguardi trattieni (Amore)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Ruth-Margret Pütz, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    14. Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Che disse? Che ascoltai? (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    15. Act II Scene 1: Dance No. 2

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    16. Act II Scene 1: Chi mai dell'Erebo fra le caligini (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    17. Act II Scene 1: Dance No. 3

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    18. Act II Scene 1: Chi mai dell'Erebo fra le caligini (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    19. Act II Scene 1: Deh placatevi con me (Orfeo, Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    20. Act II Scene 1: Misero giovane, che vuoi, che mediti? (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    21. Act II Scene 1: Aria: Mille pene (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    22. Act II Scene 1: Ah, quale incognito affetto flebile (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    23. Act II Scene 1: Aria: Men tiranne (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    24. Act II Scene 1: Ah, quale incognito affetto flebile (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    25. Act II Scene 2: Dance No. 4

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    26. Act II Scene 2: Arioso: Che puro ciel (Orfeo, Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    27. Act II Scene 2: Vieni a' regni del riposo (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    28. Act II Scene 2: Dance No. 5

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    29. Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Animé avventurose (Orfeo, Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    30. Act II Scene 2: Torna, o bella, al tuo consorte (Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    31. Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Vieni, segui i miei passi (Orfeo, Euridice)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    32. Act III Scene 1: Duetto: Vieni appaga il tuo consorte (Orfeo, Euridice)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    33. Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Qual vita e questa mai (Euridice)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    34. Act III Scene 1: Aria: Che fiero momento (Euridice)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    35. Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Ecco in nuovo tormento! (Orfeo, Euridice)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    36. Act III Scene 1: Aria: Che faro senza Euridice? (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    37. Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Ah finisca e per sempre (Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    38. Act III Scene 2: Recitative: Orfeo, che fai? (Amore, Orfeo)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Ruth-Margret Pütz, Grace Bumbry, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    39. Act III Scene 3: Maestoso

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    40. Act III Scene 3: Dance: Grazioso - Allegro - Andante - Allegro

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    41. Act III Scene 3: Trionfi Amore (Orfeo, Amore, Euridice, Chorus)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: MDR Rundfunkchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

      Performer: Grace Bumbry, Ruth-Margret Pütz, Anneliese Rothenberger, Walter Olbertz

      Conductor: Václav Neumann


Christoph Willibald Gluck is one of the great reformers of opera, departing from the tried and tested genres of opera seria in the 18th century: Metastasio's drama per musica and Rameau's tragédie lyrique. Gluck sought to restore dramatic truth to musical theatre, dispensing with long, virtuosic arias simply written to play to performers' vanity, and providing a greater musical and dramatic coherence to his operas. His focus on clarity, simplicity and the return to nature is perfectly exemplified in his great work, Orfeo ed Euridice, the first of his 'reform' operas. The work owes much to the style of French opera, with its accompanied recitative and simple vocal lines.

This historic recording from 1966 features a young Grace Bumbry, who was recognised at the Kennedy Centre Honours in 2009 as a defining figure in American arts and culture. Also featuring internationally renowned conductor Václav Neumann, the recording is an acclaimed interpretation of one of Gluck's best-loved works.

Other information:
- Includes plot synopsis and liner notes on the composer and work.
- Libretto available on www.brilliantclassics.com.