When this recording was released in 1980, it was justly hailed as one of the most sumptuously beautiful and gloriously spiritual recordings ever made. It was the first disc by Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars -- a crackerjack English a cappella choir of 21 voices -- and in a single stroke it swept away decades of desiccated and etiolated ...
Recordings of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride run the stylistic gamut. And while, say, the full-blooded, almost Verdian, productions starring Maria Callas in the 1950s would never be confused with the more scholarly efforts from recent years, they are inarguably aspects of the same piece. John Eliot Gardiner's 1985 recording, starring Diana Montague, ...
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