Critical Acclaim: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Don Juan
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.
The MHS Review 387 Vol. 11 No.9, 1987
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.
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.