Gluck, Christoph Willibald > Beuron, Yann

Gluck: Alcesta / John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists, Anne Sophie von Otter, Paul Groves [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EMI Classics / 2009-02-24

Works: Christoph W. Gluck: Alceste
Performers: Beuron, Yann; Caton, Frederic; Groves, Paul; Henschell, Deitrich; Massenot, Gladys; Tezier, Ludovic; Thebault, Hjordis; von Otter, Anne Sofie
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir

This release features a stark yet powerful production of Gluck's Baroque masterpiece Alceste....continue...

Gluck: Alceste / Gardiner, Von Otter, Groves, Beuron, et al

2 CD / Philips / 2002-09-10

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste
Performers: Beuron, Yann; Fuge, Katharine; Groves, Paul; Henschel, Dietrich; Lunn, Joanne; Testé, Nicolas; Tezier, Ludovic; von Otter, Anne Sofie
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

"There has been no recording of the 1776 French version - musically richer, dramatically tauter and more human than the monumental, monolithic Italian original -...continue...

Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride / Minkowski, Delunsch, et al

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2001-05-08

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Performers: Alvaro, Laurent; Beuron, Yann; Delgado-Boge, Claire; Delunsch, Mireille; Keenlyside, Simon; Kennedy, Nicki; Naouri, Laurent; Norman-Webb, Michelle
Conductors: Minkowski, Marc
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre

"John Eliot Gardiner's 1985 Philips recording has long held pride of place... But Minkowski's has even greater incisiveness, immediacy and bravura. Sometimes his effects are...continue...

Gluck: Armide / Minkowski, Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, et al

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1999-11-16

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Armide
Performers: Beuron, Yann; Delunsch, Mireille; Gabail, Valerie; Gregoire, Thierry; Heaston, Nicole; Hurtaud, Jean-Christophe; Kozena, Magdalena; Masset, Francoise; Naouri, Laurent; Podles, Ewa; Polegato, Brett; R...

"...for most listereners this new recording will introduct an opera well worth getting to know...[The opera] comes across vividly in Marc Minkowski's spirited account, which...continue...