Gluck: Im Reich Der Schatten
Soloists: Neue Nurnberger Ratsmusik
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Christoph Willibald Gluck - Im Reich der Schatten -
With texts and music after the opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
Christoph Willibald Gluck was severely annoyed. He was now 60, and still had to deal with the same annoyances he had for decades: the turbulent life at the Paris Opera, for which he was always writing new stage works, the many rehearsals with petulant divas, the orchestra musicians, with whom Gluck was rarely satisfied.
According to contemporary witnesses, he had to retire to the sickbed for a while due to exhaustion. Here he dreamt up a dream world: an opera radically freed of ballast, without ballet, without a large chorus, with only a few performers and a greatly reduced orchestra.
Gluck himself did not live to see the realization of his dream; the Neue Nurnberger Ratsmusik has now brought it to life: a few singers each have to perform several roles, a narrator replaces the omitted recitatives and even some chorus numbers.
Together with the slim ensemble, a prime example of focus achieved through slimming down is created.
Tracklisting
Pia Davila; Bernhard Reichel; Ensemble Musica getutscht
Laefer Quartet
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
Fanie Antonelou; Sofya Gandilyan
Carmen Artaza; Hilko Dumno
Peter Kofler; Florian Helgath; Chorwerk Ruhr
Christoph Breidler; Juri Tetzlaff; Duisburger Philharmoniker
Various
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
Frieder Bernius, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Sing in Solidarity, Brass Band of Columbus, and Chris Westover-Munoz
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor