Cecilia Bartoli, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik - Gluck: Italian Arias (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 306 Mb | Total time: 67:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 467 248-2 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 306 Mb | Total time: 67:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 467 248-2 | Recorded: 2001
After the pan-global success of her disc of Vivaldi arias, mezzo Cecilia Bartoli is clearly a woman on a mission to rescue the neglected operatic output of otherwise well-known composers. Of the eight arias by Gluck on this disc, six have never been recorded before–and it's likely that the operas they have been taken from will be unknown to all but the most obsessive buffs. Unfortunately, even Bartoli can't quite make a case for all the material here: it sometimes lapses into the excessive passage-work and routine arpeggios which are especially obvious in the first track.