Gluck on an acoustic

Jane

One more acoustic noodle from my 4 day adventure-with-acoustics last month.
It's a sentimental piece for me, but I've played it rarely in recent years... which shows in the recording.
The two long trills toward the end are places where I find the sostenuto pedal useful to hold the initial chord beneath the moving left hand bits, but I don't know how well the microphones on my phone pick that up.

L-M

Jane That's beautiful！Thank you for sharing！💖

Peyton

Jane What a beautiful piece. Thankyou.

navindra

Beautiful indeed. So expressive, so grandiose. Tugs at the heartstrings.

danno858

That's a great piece! Well done

trecorda

Thank you, Beautiful playing Jane. I love the Greek Myth of Orpheus. Orpheus and Euradici are a newly wed couple deeply in love. His wife Euradici one day walks in the garden. She is bitten by a serpent and dies. Orpheus who a musician and singer carries Euradici and goes through a cave and enters into the underworld. He wishes to perform to the King (god?) of the underworld with such artistry and expression that Euradici so that the King will allow Euradici to be able to return to the life and the world we know

He pays the boatman two Pennie’s to cross a river to see the King of the underworld. Orpheus performs with such emotion and artistry that the King is moved. He allows Euradici to return to the world of light. ONLY one condition Euradici is NOT allowed to look back. At the steep slope towards the entrance Euradici looks back and she is drawn back to the underworld instantly. Orpheus has lost her depite his effort. There are quite a few other endings as well. The story is deeply symbolic, psychological, and probably philosophical. Jung and Freud probably had a field day discussing the meaning in the human psyche.