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Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787
' Gluck was an opera composer who said to his contemporaries: Gentlemen, let us compose our operas more rationally. An opera is not a stage concert, as most of you seem to think. Let us give up our habit of sacrificing our common sense to the variety of our singers, and let us compose our airs, duets, recitatives and sinfonias in such a way that they shall always be appropriate to the dramatic situation given to us by the librettist.' (BERNARD SHAW ) This week's programmes consider the accuracy of Shaw's statement. , Music from Alceste Overture
SALZBURG MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER
Divinités du Styx (Act 2) ELISABETH SODERSTRdM (SOp) NORRKÖPING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ULF BJORLIN
Act 3 (complete)
GERAINT JONES SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by GERAINT JONES : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Conducted By:
Leopold Hager
Conducted By:
Ulf Bjorlin
Conducted By:
Geraint Jones
Source: Radio Times

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