An introduction to-- Beethoven : Fidelio

Resource Information

The work An introduction to-- Beethoven : Fidelio represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

An introduction to-- Beethoven : Fidelio

Title remainder

Fidelio

Statement of responsibility

written by Thomson Smillie

Title variation

• Beethoven, Fidelio
• Fidelio

Creator

• Smillie, Thomson

Contributor

• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
• Timson, David

Narrator

• Timson, David

Subject

• Electronic audio files
• Operas -- Analysis, appreciation
• Operas -- Excerpts
• Operas -- Stories, plots, etc
• Stories, plots, etc
• Streaming audio
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

Genre

• Stories, plots, etc
• Excerpts
• Electronic audio files
• Streaming audio

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form. Fidelio is a work like no other. Beethoven's only opera is about the joy of married love - by a man who never knew that pleasure. It is about heroism by a man who was often mean and petty in his human relations; it is about freedom by a man who was a prisoner of his own deafness; and ultimately it is about joy by a man who experienced precious little of it. Maybe there is a divine logic to that: feelings the artist could not experience but could express find their noblest manifestation in music of overwhelming power and majesty

Member of

• Opera explained
• Naxos Music Library

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Additional physical form

Also available as compact disc; previously issued as HNH International NAXOS 8.558077.

Cataloging source

NAXOS

Dewey number

782.1

Form of composition

• operas
• not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Language note

Narrated in English; opera excerpts sung in German

LC call number

MT100.B44

LC item number

S65 2007ab

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Unidentified performers ; David Timson, narrator

Series statement

Opera explained

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable