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VICTOR RECORDS | Mamber |S)
SETTING OF ACT III ORFEO ED EURIDICE (0r-feh'-oh ayd Ay-oo~ree-dee'-cheh) (Orpheus
and Eurydice) (Vienna, Oct. 5, 1762) (Gluck)
Book by Ramieri De Calzabigi; music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck. First production in Vienna, October 5, 1762, Gluck conducting. First Paris production, 1774, when the rdle of Orpheus was transposed for high tenor. First London production at Covent Garden, June 26, 1770. Other revivals were during the Winter Garden season of 1863; in 1885 (in German), by the Metropolitan Opera under Walter Damrosch; the English production in 1886 by the National Opera Company; the Abbey revival in Italian in 1892; and the Metropolitan production of 1910, with Homer, Gadski and Gluck.
The opera has had only one adequate American production previous to this Metropolitan revival, and that was during the American Opera Company season of 1886— the Abbey revival of 1892 meeting with but indifferent success.
This opera, which has been called “Gluck’s incomparable masterpiece,” and of which the great Fétis wrote, “‘it is one of the most beautiful productions of genius,” may be properly termed a purely classical music drama. The music is exquisite in its delicacy and grace, while the story is an interesting and affecting one. Orpheus may be called the grandfather of grand opera, it being the oldest work of its kind to hold its place on the stage, the first representation occurring one hundred and fifty years ago.
The story concerns the Greek poet Orpheus, who grieves deeply over the death of his wife Euridice, and finally declares he will enter the realms of Pluto and search for her among the spirits of the departed. The goddess Love appears and promises to aid him, on condition that when he has found Euridice he will return to earth without once looking at her.
(See ‘‘Victor Book of the Opera’’ for complete illustrated description.) ORPHEUS RECORDS
Su e con me vieni cara (On My Faith Relying) In Italian Gadski and Homer|89041) 12/4.00
Melodie Violin Maud Powell|64075) 10) 1.00
Mélodie (Transcribed by Wilhelmj) Violin (Piano acc.) Mischa Elman|74459}12/1.50 Ach, ich habe sie verloren (I Have Lost Eurydice) German Schumann-Heink|88091| 12/3
he faro senza Euridice (I Have Lost My Eurydice) In Italian Louise Homer|88285) 12/3
OTE— The two selections above are identical, but in different languages.)
{ieeren Grinder’s Troubles (McKenna) Porter and asien} 17263110) .75 Wal, I Swan! (Burt) Byron G. Harlan and Chorus ;
ORGAN RECORDS, Played on Estey Pipe Organ :
Organ music is one of the finest forms of musical expression, but except in the large cities music-lovers have few opportunities to enjoy it. Many efforts have been made to obtain satisfactory reproductions of a pipe organ, but these experiments have met with but little success until the recent series of experiments by the Victor resulted in some excellent reproductions.
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