Gretry: Guillaume Tell
) | Label: DYNAMIC Catalog: DYN-37694 Format: DVD Scimone; Mazzonis di Pralafera; Laho; Catherine Gillet; Lhote; Devos; Kovalski; Delcour; Cifolelli; Joakim; Lecat; RuizComposed by: Gretry, Andre Modeste If Gioachino Rossini’s masterpiece is the only William Tell title still in the repertoire, it is not, however, the only one that revolves around the famous archer’s legend. Thirty-eight years earlier, in 1791, Belgian composer André-Modeste Grétry’s premiered his Guillaume Tell for Paris’s Comédie Italienne. This world premiere recording captured its 2013 revival at Liège’s Opéra Royal de Wallonie to commemorate the bicentenary of the composer’s death (1813).  Price: $39.98 |