Fidelio Quartet * Gale, Soderstrom, Caley, Appelgren

Glyndebourne Festival Opera - Elizabeth Gale, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Ian Caley, Curt Appelgren, LPO Dir B.Haitink Prod. Peter Hall

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree9911]

Lovely, young love, beethoven.. To feel wonderful... your heart sings

[@allesleyparkkid]

Absolutely beautiful! It makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up!

[@greve]

This is lovely singing of this quartet. Thank you for posting!

[@sanjosemike]

PERHAPS THE MOST TOUCHING PART OF THE ENTIRE OPERA By it's simplicity, it take us to the very depths of the majesty of Beethoven's deepest thoughts and feelings. sanjosemike

[@nemoaxe2305]

Mir ist so wunderbar...

[@leelowry6635]

a simple fugue...but the most beautiful 3 mins of music ever written...the genius of Beethoven

[@sanjosemike]

Yesterday, I performed the Beethoven Moonlight and Pathétique Sonata at our community concert fund raising. There is a REASON why people who study Beethoven simply call him "The Master." There are no words in any language that are "sufficient" for Beethoven. sanjosemike

[@kgus123]

Another Fidelio! Thank you.

[@Clondyke42]

@KatherineXIX; you are right, we stood apart, far from each other, in the production. We gathered together like this only once for this recording, because it would look good on TV. Wbw/Curt Appelgren (singing the part of Rocco in this production)

[@patshaw51]

Sublime!

[@MrJustinreese]

@KatherineXIX This is one of many stagings for this scene. In many of the stage adaptations actors pause where they are and sing the whole quartet in a statue like pose. Personally I think this staging still gets the point across without putting strain on the singers, (and it makes for handy camera closeups of the whole quartet).

[@francescadarimini6476]

Simplement parfait! I wish I could like the two.

[@fabriciosantana2209]

Dando continuidade o trabalhar a psicopatia

[@kcherrytree1]

Sehr Schon! Danke. Kevin

[@JohnnyNorfolk]

My favorite piece from this opera.

[@ngethembanicholasbhalintul9506]

Nice song indeed

[@JohnnyNorfolk]

Wonderful

[@greve]

@fhebbert I totally agree with you.

[@etiennelaurent4166]

Le hautbois qui accompagne l'intro de la soprano...

[@fhebbert]

To the staging criticism I say 'nonsense'. They are lost in thought, each reflecting on Marzelline's love for Fidelio (Leonora in disguise), and each with differing emotions - and it matters nothing where they stand. In criticising Peter Hall you are like the young Weber dismissing the mature Beethoven. The greatest composer ever of the most powerful opera ever.