Gluck GREECE – American Classical Hymns

An Isaac Watts text set to music from Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide (Chorus: “Que d’attraits”) in the 1819 Original Collection of Psalm Tunes (Arthur Clifton).

Hymn tunes were one of European classical music’s chief conduits to American audiences through the mid-19th century. Hymn adaptations of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and others appeared by the hundreds in antebellum hymnals.

Recorded remotely (various US locations)
November 2020
Mary Burke, viola da gamba
Sally Messner, Director and Sound Engineer