Gluck, Orfeo & Euridice

Wilhelm Furtwängler: Das Vermächtnis / The Legacy - Box 1: Bach, Handel, Gluck (2010)

Wilhelm Furtwängler: Das Vermächtnis / The Legacy - Box 1: Bach, Handel, Gluck (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.46 Gb | Total time: 06:41:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Membran Music | # 233110 | Recorded: 1926-1954

Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler already enjoyed a worldwide legendary standing during his lifetime - he was considered the German conductor and performances were greeted with rapturous applause. Today, more than 50 years after his death, Wilhelm Furtwangler is still an icon and his work has become an integral part ofthe music scene. But just what makes up this fascination? And what makes his recordings so special? This edition provides the answers.

VA - Vivarte Collection, Vol. 2 (2016) (60 CD Box Set) FLAC  Music

Posted by murena at Feb. 20, 2017
VA - Vivarte Collection, Vol. 2 (2016) (60 CD Box Set) FLAC

VA - Vivarte Collection, Vol. 2 (2016) (60 CD Box Set) FLAC
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | Covers included | 17 Gb
Genre: Classical, Baroque / Label: Sony Classical

The box contains a perfect overview of VIVARTE’s legendary catalogue of ancient music ranging from Vivaldi to Brahms. Most of the recordings received critical acclaim all over the world, many of them won prestigious awards and many are reference recordings.

Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 19, 2021
Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)

Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:10:37 | 318 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

Two first-ever releases from 1965 Philips sessions of 18th-century music for the stage conducted by the supremely versatile Sir Charles Mackerras. Eighteenth-century music had been a passion for Charles Mackerras ever since childhood. 'What I particularly like is the beautiful symmetry of it,' he said in 1977, 'and the extremely florid decoration which you find in the Baroque art of central Europe. I've tried hard not only to be a scholar and a musicologist but to try and interpret old music in the old way, in the way that the composers imagined it. I passionately believe in trying to recreate the sound, the actual noise that is made by an orchestra of Baroque dimensions.
VA - Ultimate Opera: The Essential Masterpieces (2007) (5 CD Box Set)

VA - Ultimate Opera: The Essential Masterpieces (2007) (5 CD Box Set)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | 5 CDs, 06:06:12 min | Covers included | 1,75 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera / Label: Decca

Decca has pulled together a blockbuster collection of many of opera's greatest hits from the standard repertoire. The selection is heavily weighted to the nineteenth century, and to Italian operas, but it does indeed offer a generous sampling of what the general public understands as the staples of the repertoire. It includes one Baroque aria, from Handel's Rodelinda, and several from the Classical era - two arias from Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice, and seven from Mozart's operas - and the rest range from the bel canto of Rossini to the verismo of Cilea and Puccini. The selection is primarily made up of arias, but includes ensembles, choruses, and orchestral excerpts.
Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Arias for Guadagni (2012)

Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Arias for Guadagni (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 385 Mb | Total time: 78:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67924 | Recorded: 2011

British countertenor Iestyn Davies is one of the fastest rising stars on the concert and opera circuit. Following his highly acclaimed recording of Porpora cantatas, he returns for a second solo album with Hyperion, a selection of arias written for Gaetano Guadagni. Italian-born Guadagni was the first ‘modern’ castrato, famed all over Europe for the lyric purity of his voice and his powerful, naturalistic acting style. Not only did he enjoy a close artistic relationship with Handel, who nurtured Guadagni’s voice to fit the alto roles in his English oratorios, but he effectively created the role of Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera he thoroughly made his own. Here, Iestyn Davies is joined again by the renowned period-instrument band Arcangelo, directed by Jonathan Cohen.

Anne Sofie von Otter - Mozart, Haydn, Gluck: Opera Arias (1997)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 19, 2018
Anne Sofie von Otter - Mozart, Haydn, Gluck: Opera Arias (1997)

Anne Sofie von Otter - Mozart, Haydn, Gluck: Opera Arias (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:15 | 342 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 449 206-2

For the sake of both vocal and family well-being, Anne Sofie von Otter has always followed the wise course of self-rationing in opera. This disc, an entirely personal selection of arias from the Viennese Classical period, means all the more to her including, as it does, arias sung by dramatic and passionate women 'most of whom', she admits in the accompanying notes, 'I have never performed on stage and, alas, probably never will'.
Daniel Hope & Zurich Chamber Orchestra - Journey to Mozart (2018)

Daniel Hope & Zurich Chamber Orchestra - Journey to Mozart (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 349 MB
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Tracks: 12 | Time: 69:14 min

With Journey to Mozart, Daniel Hope turns to core classical repertoire again, exploring the world of Mozart, as well as composers that inspired him and vice versa.
Daniel Behle, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou - Gluck: Opera Arias (2014)

Daniel Behle, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou - Gluck: Opera Arias (2014)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:59 | 373 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera, Vocal | Label: Decca | Catalog: 0289 478 6758 6

Christoph Willibald Gluck has a place in the history books for a few big hits and for the idea of reforming the ornate style of opera seria serious opera in the 18th century, replacing it with a more natural ideal of melody. This reputation has rested on a very few pieces, and both bibliographic control and recorded explorations of Gluck's music are perhaps more sparse than for any other major composer.

Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti Great Arias (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 10, 2023
Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti Great Arias (2023)

Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti Great Arias (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:12:29 | 872 / 436 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Decca

One of the most successful and admired opera singers of all time, Luciano Pavarotti was king among tenors from the late 1960s through the 1990s. His voice was noted for its exciting upper register, and tailor-made for the operas of Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, and Puccini, and as it darkened slightly over the years, for the verismo composers as well. His vocal longevity, which kept him singing youthfully well into his sixties, and still beautifully after that, was a credit to his commanding technique and artistry, and remarkable considering his nearly 40 years of performing. Pavarotti's father was a baker, and his mother worked in a cigar factory.

Hera Hyesang Park - I Am Hera (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 5, 2020
Hera Hyesang Park - I Am Hera (2020)

Hera Hyesang Park - I Am Hera (2020)
FLAC tracks | 1:09:11 | 259 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Describing herself as a nomad and free spirit, Park is determined to follow her own path as she travels the world, challenging cultural, racial and gender stereotypes along the way. Her fascination with the issue of personal identity is determining the choice of repertoire for her forthcoming first album. Collectively representing her lyric coloratura voice and understanding of her art, her selected works will also be linked to key episodes in her life and career so far. She hopes this musical self-portrait will speak to a wide audience.