Includes 2 different recordings of the Dance of the blessed spirits (from Orfeo), the 1st from 1952, the 2nd from 1946.
Language (note)
Sung in Italian and German.
Playing time
000956 004256 000443 000713
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
In Orfeo excerpts: Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano ; Barbara Gibson, soprano ; Robert Shaw Chorale. In Fidelio excerpt: Rose Bampton, soprano. In all: NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor.
Event
Recorded, in NBC broadcasts and rehearsals 1945 June 14-1952 November 22 Carnegie Hall, and NBC Studio 3-A, New York City.
Container of (work): Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Iphigénie en Aulide. Ouverture.
Container of (work): Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orfeo ed Euridice. Atto 2o.
Container of (work): Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée et Eurydice. Ballet des ombres heureuses.
Container of (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fidelio (1814). Komm, Hoffnung.
Robert Shaw Chorale, singer.
NBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
Other form:
Source record: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Iphigénie en Aulide. Ouverture. Iphigénie en Aulide. Overture. New York, NY : RCA Victor Gold Seal : Manufactured and distributed by BMG Music, ℗1992 (OCoLC)28919739