Gluck: Orfeo, Italian Version

By Herbert Kupferberg

(Angel SBL-3717, with Grace Bumbry as Orfeo and Vaclav Neumann conducting; and DGG-l39268/69, with FischerDieskau and Karl Richter). Bumbry’s singing has more warmth, and so does Neumann’s conducting, but neither of these is wholly satisfying.