Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Muti/Philharmonia (3-CD)

Discs: 3
Record Label: Warner
Release Date: March 14, 2011

“Muti led a graceful, shapely performance, one filled with final choral and solo singing.” — New York Times

Riccardo Muti leads the Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus and an all-female cast in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.

Contents:

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Viennese version, 1762)
Agnes Baltsa Orfeo
Margaret Marshall Euridice
Edita Gruberova Amore
Leslie Pearson harpsichord
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
John McCarthy director
June–July 1981, Kingsway Hall London
November 1981, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London