1/5. In the course of his career, Gluck wrote over 50 operas but only a handful are performed today. Yet he is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern opera. This week Donald Macleod looks at his life and music.
La Clemenza di Tito (excerpts)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Berlin Early Music Academy, director Bernhard Forck Le Cinesi (excerpts)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra, conductor Rene Jacobs
L'lnnocenza Giustificata Cappella Coloniensis , director Christopher Moulds
Don Juan Tafelmusik , conductor Bruno Weil
Producer Deborah Preston Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight