Gluck / Niquet / Le Concert Spirituel - Echo & Narcisse - Music CD

After five triumphs at the Paris Opra, Chevalier Gluck, reformer of French opera and protg of Marie-Antoinette, created his last work in 1779: Echo et Narcisse, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Adopting the style of a pastoral, it was spurned by the public at it's premiere, but is a tribute to the splendour of the French tradition. With the support of the Fondation Etrillard, Herv Niquet has resurrected Gluck's last opus, in which the fates of the nymph Echo, who repeats the last word she hears ad infinitum, and the proud Narcissus, condemned to love only his own reflection, intertwine: two perfectly Baroque myths!