COMPOSERS: Gluck
LABELS: Sony
WORKS: Iphigénie en Tauride
PERFORMER: Carol Vaness, Thomas Allen & Gösta Winbergh Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala & Coro del Teatro alla Scala/Riccardo Muti
CATALOGUE NO: 88697576372
Carol Vaness is a less than vulnerable priestess in a noisy live recording of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, championed by Riccardo Muti at La Scala. The late Gösta Winbergh is a poignant Pylade but hearing Thomas Allen’s Oreste is a reminder that he recorded the role under more ideal studio circumstances with Eliot Gardiner and the fresher-voiced Diana Montague. David Nice