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An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

06/04/2014

Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's operatic masterpiece Iphigenie en Tauride.

Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play and first performed in Paris in 1779.

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.

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