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Critical Acclaim: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Don Juan

The MHS Review 387 Vol. 11 No.9, 1987

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Mark Swed, Keynote January 1986)

Gardiner leads a crackerjack performance using 18th­-century instruments and has been accorded a refreshingly clear acoustic and general1y fine surfaces. A delightful disc.

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The Feast of Stone)

A Ballet-Pantomime

Performed on Period Instruments by English Baroque Soloists

John Eliot Gardiner, Director


. Of obviously less fame and acquaintance than Mozart's operatic Don, Gluck's incarnation of the sexually obsessed Juan is short on high drama but teeming with gusto and good tunes. Gardiner leads a crackerjack performance using 18th­-century instruments and has been accorded a refreshingly clear acoustic and general1y fine surfaces. A delightful disc.

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