Euripides, "The Bacchae" (ca. 406 BCE) at Bartleby.com (Harvard Classics ed.)
Broken up into four simple HTML pages.
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Euripides, The Bacchae (ca. 406 BCE), full text at Perseus Project (Loeb ed.)
Kind of a clunky interface, but it's all there.
more fromwww.perseus.tufts.edu
Periaktoi-Bacchae/Περίακτοι-Βάκχες
Once scene from a contemporary performance of Euripides' Bacchae (in Greek), with some singing and choreography. Decent video production; seven minutes long. Considering using this play (in some form) in a Religion and Violence class.
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Skidmore College orchestra performs Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
The orchestral arrangement, of course. This is free for downloading. Each movement in the suite is a different .mp3 link.
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The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin [5]
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval and neo-Latin writers are out of the way at the bottom right.
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The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin [4]
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval and neo-Latin writers are out of the way at the bottom right.
more fromwww.thelatinlibrary.com
The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval and neo-Latin writers are out of the way at the bottom right.
more fromwww.thelatinlibrary.com
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) (comp.), Deutsche Magnificat (from Schwanengesang, 1671)
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Dutch-Indonesian gamelan group -- audio & video links
Some very nice gamelan recordings. I am not enough of an expert to know how authentic or traditional this style is. I think most or all of the players are Dutch.
more fromwww.marsudiraras.org
Free early music recordings on classical guitar (lots)
Jon Sayles, an amateur classical guitarist and lover of early music, has recorded a huge number of classic early melodies on his guitar and made all the recordings freely available in mp3 format on his site. Check it out. He is modest about his abilities,
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Medieval & Renaissance music - listen online
Lots of music here; good selection. Unfortunately it's all RealMedia presentations. But the quality is decent.
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"Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" (solo guitar)
Via espew.com
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"Bitchin' Choral Music" via Under the Rotunda
Three live choral mp3s from a music blog I never heard of before. Via the Hype Machine.
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Richard Nance - Songs Of A Young Man (live choral recital)
Is this really "classical" music? Not sure. But quite gorgeous in any case. Via http://snurl.com/19pei
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Arvo Part - Bogoroditse Devo (live choral recital)
Via http://snurl.com/19pei
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Gwyneth Walker - I Will Be Earth (live choral recital)
I don't know if this really counts as "classical" but it's quite beautiful. Via http://snurl.com/19pei
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On Schubert's "Trout" quintet (1819)
Short excerpts from a roundtable discussion with Yo-Yo Ma, Emmanuel Ax, Pamela Frank and two others on the experience of recording the Trout together, in my opinion one of the high points of 19th-century chamber music.
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