Opera Highlights
GLUCK Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Kathleen Ferrier (Alt) - Kirsten Flagstad (Sopran)
Label : Alto
Artikelnummer: ALC 1034
1 CD
CHF 10.50
(Orfeo) Stiedry's approach ....now seems to accord with modern ideas of how to treat Gluck, not marmoreally as was then the general custom but as live drama. In consequence Ferrier's "Che farò?" here sounds to today's ears much more plausible than the famous, more leisurely (later version)." (Gramophone) "darkly intense reading... Ferrier emerges in full expressiveness...(Pengun Guide)