Gluck: Orphée (Aix Festival, 1955)
[disc 1, side 1:] Overture, act I, first part
[disc 1, side 2:] act I, end; act II, first and send parts
[disc 2, side 1:] act II, end; act III, first part
[disc 2, side 2:] act III end
Libretto by Moline, reconstruction after the original manuscripts of 1774 by Antoine Geoffroy de Chaume
Louis de Froment, conductor; Janine Micheau, soprano (Eurydice); Liliane Berton, soprano (L'Amour); Nicolai Gedda, tenor (Orph). Choeurs du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, dir. Élisabeth Brasseur. Flute solo: Lucien Lavaillotte.
DESCRIPTION: 2 discs, 33 1/3 rpm, mono, 12 in. Matrix nos. XPTX 489 (label; etched + 21B and M6 184362), XPTX 490 (etched + 21 and M6 182787), XPTX 491 (etched +21 and M6 182788), XPTX 492 (etched +22 and M6 183660). Libretto, 20 pp., in container.
NOTES: Recorded July 1955 in Aix. Janine Micheau was a substitute for Elisabeth Schwartzkopf (Le Monde, 1955-07-13)
Pathé DTX 243
= Angel 3569 B/l (Angel 3555455). Libretto with English transl. by Sherry Mangan, 24 pp., laid in container.
=2CD July 1988
INDEX: 59~050