Christoph Willibald Gluck's Demofoonte was premiered in 1743 and revived several times in the 1740s, only to disappear into the mists of history, overshadowed by the composer's "reform" operas that wove music and drama more closely together. Its modern premiere came in 2014 in Vienna, at the hands of Baroque opera conductor and researcher Alan Curtis and his ensemble Il Complesso Barocco. Curtis wrote most of the recitatives, which were missing, basing their style on other early Gluck operas. He also added a three-part ...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck's Demofoonte was premiered in 1743 and revived several times in the 1740s, only to disappear into the mists of history, overshadowed by the composer's "reform" operas that wove music and drama more closely together. Its modern premiere came in 2014 in Vienna, at the hands of Baroque opera conductor and researcher Alan Curtis and his ensemble Il Complesso Barocco. Curtis wrote most of the recitatives, which were missing, basing their style on other early Gluck operas. He also added a three-part Sinfonia in the style of Gluck's mentor, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, to replace the missing original. The present recording, knitted together from recordings made in Italy and Switzerland, features many of the singers from Curtis' premiere production, including the impressive countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and soprano Sylvia Schwartz as the pair of secretly married lovers Timante and Dircea, with the latter under threat of being sacrificed due to a Thracian oracular command....
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