Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride
Lucie Skeaping looks at the music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play, and first performed in Paris in 1779.
With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion. The recitatives are shorter and accompanied by strings and other instruments (not just traditional continuo). The normal dance movements found in earlier French tragédie en musique are almost entirely absent. The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War
also.....
As has been discussed on the BAL thread, recordings of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater are being reviewed on Saturday's CD Review.
Doversoul is away for a week or two and has asked me to step in. If anyone sees anything upcoming, e.g. on TTN, please post it up.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play, and first performed in Paris in 1779.
With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion. The recitatives are shorter and accompanied by strings and other instruments (not just traditional continuo). The normal dance movements found in earlier French tragédie en musique are almost entirely absent. The drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War
also.....
As has been discussed on the BAL thread, recordings of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater are being reviewed on Saturday's CD Review.
Doversoul is away for a week or two and has asked me to step in. If anyone sees anything upcoming, e.g. on TTN, please post it up.
, as a lutenist (among her many musical accomplishments, she studied with Diana Poulton) she probably has the name of Alessandro Piccinini lodged in her brain! Piccinini (1566-1638) wrote some marvellous music for the lute and chitarrone - I have some on Jakob Lindberg CDs, and indeed heard JL play some in a chitarrone recital in Oxford. Piccinini claims the credit for inventing the greatly extended neck for the lower strings (as opposed to a bent-back peg box) and for establishing its popularity as a solo instrument.
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