Composer of the Week - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Episode 1

With Donald Macleod. Remembered today as a composer who reformed the narrow conventions of Italian and French opera, Gluck was a fascinatingly unique composer. He deliberately stood aloof from any school or tradition, declaring he wanted to write 'music belonging to all nations'. Overture (Orfeo ed Euridice) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Rene Jacobs (conductor) Non vi turbate, no, pietosi dei (Alceste) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) The English Concert Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) Iphigenie en Aulide (Act 2, scenes 6-7) Achille ...... John Aler (tenor) Agamemnon ...... Jose van Dam (bass-baritone) Orchestra de l'Opera de Lyon John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Chaconne (Alessandro) Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel (conductor) Iphigenie en Tauride (Act 3) Iphigenie ...... Mireille Delunsch (soprano) Oreste ...... Simon Keenlyside (baritone) Une Pretresse ...... Claire Delgado-Boge (soprano) Pylade ...... Yann Beuron (tenor) Les Musiciens du Louvre Marc Minkowski (conductor).