We explore the Orpheus legend in music – and feature an historic
performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Hilde Gueden and
Fedora Barbieri.
Orpheus
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Playlist:
1:00 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983
1:05 pm
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Act I
- Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Hilde Gueden, soprano ; Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Magda Gabory, soprano
- Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
- CD/Album: Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Furtwängler
- Record co./Cat #: Urania 22.290
- Release Year: 2006
1:43 pm
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Act II
- Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Hilde Gueden, soprano ; Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Magda Gabory, soprano
- Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
- CD/Album: Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Furtwängler
- Record co./Cat #: Urania 22.290
- Release Year: 2006
2:30 pm
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Act III
- Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Hilde Gueden, soprano ; Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano ; Magda Gabory, soprano
- Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
- CD/Album: Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Furtwängler
- Record co./Cat #: Urania 22.290
- Release Year: 2006
3:07 pm
- Orphée aux Enfers: Act I (excerpt)
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
3:15 pm
- Orphée aux Enfers: Act II: Finale
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Jane Rhodes, mezzo-soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor ; Charles Burles, tenor ; Michel Trempont, baritone
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
3:25 pm
- Orphée aux Enfers: Act IV (excerpt)
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Charles Burles, tenor ; Michel Trempont, baritone
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
3:38 pm
- Orphée aux Enfers: Act IV: Finale
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Orchestre et Chœurs du Capitole de Toulouse
- Soloists: Mady Mesplé, soprano ; Michel Sénéchal, tenor ; Michel Trempont, baritone ; Jane Rhodes, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: Michel Plasson
- CD/Album: Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49647
- Release Year: 1979
3:43 pm
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Act IV: Finale
- Composer: Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: Scottish Opera Chorus; Scottish National Opera
- Soloists: Nicolai Gedda, tenor
- Conductor: Richard Bonynge
- CD/Album: Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice
- Record co./Cat #: MYTO 905.29
- Release Year: 1997
3:57 pm
- Orpheus
- Composer: Igor Stravinsky
- Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- CD/Album: Stravinsky: Orpheus - Danses concertantes
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 459644
- Release Year: 1999
4:27 pm
- Orpheus
- Composer: Franz Liszt
- Ensemble: Budapest Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Ãrpád Joó
- CD/Album: Liszt: Symphonic Poems I
- Record co./Cat #: Hungaroton 12678
- Release Year: 1986
4:39 pm
- Four Sonnets to Orpheus
- Composer: Robert De Cormier
- Ensemble: New York Choral Society
- Conductor: Robert De Cormier
- CD/Album: De Cormier & Levi
- Record co./Cat #: Centaur 2028
- Release Year: 1988
4:47 pm
- Come, woeful Orpheus
- Composer: William Byrd
- Ensemble: Quink Vocal Ensemble
- CD/Album: English Madrigals
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80328
- Release Year: 1993
4:54 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983