Audio
and Video Links
I.
Mozart:
Le nozze di
Figaro
Here is a link to an
outstanding production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. We will be
focusing on the opening scene in particular as a representation of Enlightenment
ideas in opera, but I hope you’ll listen to the rest of the opera some time.
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro, Overture and Act I,
Scene 1
II.
Beethoven:
Fidelio
This
performance at the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York is excellent, and the
YouTube audio and video fidelity is pretty good. Although it lacks subtitles,
each part is only a few minutes long and has a title that will help you find
its location in the libretto.
L.V.
Beethoven, FIDELIO (1), MET 2003, Ouverture, James
Levine
III.
Beethoven,
String Quartet No. 13 in Bb Major, Opus 130/133
A
YouTube posting of reasonable quality by the Talich
Quartet.
I.
Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
V.
Cavatina: adagio molto espressivo
Here’s a download from Amazon.com.
Both the fidelity and the performance are outstanding, and it costs only $9.99:
Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in Bb Major: The Julliard String Quartet
IV.
Schubert,
Winterreise
A brilliant performance
by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, available on Amazon.com
for $9.49:
A
strange film on YouTube by Ian Bostridge and Julian
Drake. The link goes to the first song; links to the
others are either on the side or the bottom of the page:
Barry Mitchell, a
musicologist, was kind enough to post a translation of Müller’s lyrics here: