Sinfonia per Cembalo

Nicknamed the German Orpheus, Gluck was a revolutionary figure who influenced a whole generation of composers including Mozart, Berlioz and Wagner, the latter of whom made a modern edition of the source for this Sinfonia: the opera Iphigénie en Aulide which recounts the sacrifice the goddess Diana instructs Agamemnon to make of his daughter Iphigenia in return for fair winds on his army's sea voya...