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The History of Classical Music
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Also available: The History of Opera.
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The History of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2000
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
- By: Walter Pater
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Published in 1873, Studies in the History of the Renaissance is considered one of the most influential works in the field of aestheticism. The book is a collection of essays that explore various artists of the Renaissance period, focusing primarily on the art, culture, and philosophy of the time.
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2024
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Mozart
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Nicholas Boulton, Edward de Souza, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most astonishing child prodigy in the history of music, is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfillment, unexpected poverty, and a tragically early death. Generously illustrated by Mozart’s music, from his fifth to his final year, this portrait-in-sound reveals a fascinating yet elusive character, drawing richly on the words of the composer himself and those who knew him.
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The Life and Works of Mozart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Nicholas Boulton, Edward de Souza, Teresa Gallagher, Elaine Claxton, Steve Hodson, Jacob Moriarty
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2012
- Language: English
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Wagner
- His Life and Music
- By: Stephen Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Well over a century after Wagner's death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part operatic Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as an unparalleled example of creative megalomania.
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Wagner
- His Life and Music
- Narrated by: Stephen Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2013
- Language: English
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Tristan und Isolde
- By: Christopher Cook
- Narrated by: Christopher Cook
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Tristan und Isolde centres around two lovers who dream of romantic love and yearn for oblivion. No composer had written such a work before. Turning his back on traditional tonality, Wagner changed the course of Western music with Tristan und Isolde. But there’s also fact behind the fiction: while he wrote his opera Wagner was in love with another’s man’s wife, Mathilde Wesendonk. So Tristan and Isolde are also Richard and Mathilde.
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Tristan und Isolde
- Narrated by: Christopher Cook
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2012
- Language: English
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The History of Western Art
- By: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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Disappointing
- By Erika Gofton on 17-08-2017
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The History of Western Art
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2011
- Language: English
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Ring of the Nibelung: Opera Explained
- By: Stephen Johnson
- Narrated by: Stephen Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Wagner’s Ring cycle is the most ambitious work in the history of music: four operas that combine to tell a single epic story. Based in legend, it has become a legend in its own right: a supreme challenge for conductors, singers, opera producers, and indeed for audiences. But for all its grandeur and complexity, The Ring is far more accessible than many music lovers think.
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Ring of the Nibelung: Opera Explained
- Narrated by: Stephen Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2012
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos, and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, to his death at the age of 39 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently. We think of Chopin as a "frail, sheltered genius" but this forthright portrait demonstrates he was far more boisterous than that.
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Epic
- By Anonymous User on 30-09-2021
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, Elaine Claxton, Karen Archer
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-01-2012
- Language: English
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Puccini: Turandot
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Puccini’s swansong has a claim to being the last great popular opera. Its melodies have enchanted audiences since its posthumous premiere in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death. It involves a chilling story of love and cruelty, an intriguing cast of characters against the exotic backdrop of Imperial China, magnificent choruses and ensembles, and dazzling orchestration in an exotic score that comprises a string of remarkable arias - among which the great tenor aria "Nessun dorma" is the jewel. It is more than Puccini’s last opera: It is the last word, in every sense, on Italian opera.
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Puccini: Turandot
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2012
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Bob Peck, Neville Jason, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors’ readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man’s music is more universal; few men’s lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one - his modest height - he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven’s music can be heard in the context of his life.
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Bob Peck, Neville Jason, David Timson, Elaine Claxton, Karen Archer
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2012
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Franz Liszt
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Neville Jason, David Timson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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The life of Franz Liszt was as daring and spectacular as his music. Famed throughout Europe as the greatest pianist of the nineteenth century, he was one of the most original and prophetic composers who ever lived. Beautiful in youth, glowering in age, his high-profile love affairs were the talk of the town wherever he went and his generosity to young musicians was legendary. In this account of his epic life, actors’ readings combine with plentiful musical excerpts to paint a living portrait of a highly complex man.
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The Life and Works of Franz Liszt
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Neville Jason, David Timson, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton, Raphael Clarkson
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2012
- Language: English
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Life & Works - Johannes Brahms
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Jasper Britton, Karen Archer, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Brahms is one of the best loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful.
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Fine study of Brahms' life & work
- By Rodney Wetherell on 24-02-2017
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Life & Works - Johannes Brahms
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Jasper Britton, Karen Archer, Elaine Claxton, Neville Jason, Nicholas Boulton, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2012
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Bach
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, John Shrapnel, Trevor Nichols, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his twenty children. For the last twenty-seven years of his life he was a schoolteacher and choir director whose duties extended to meal supervision and dormitory inspection. Yet throughout his career he composed a vast body of music which is amongst the most joyful, dancing and enrapturing ever written.
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The Life and Works of Bach
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, John Shrapnel, Trevor Nichols, Ruth Sillers, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2012
- Language: English
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Puccini: La Bohème
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr
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La Bohème is one of the three operas - the others are Carmen and Aida - believed to be the most popular ever written. In the case of La Bohème the reason is that it virtually defines the term "romantic". The poignant story of Mimì and Rodolfo is told in music of such tender beauty, allied, as always, to Puccini’s intuition of what works in the theatre. The result is an opera that readily appeals to our emotions and senses.
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Puccini: La Bohème
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 26-10-2012
- Language: English
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Famous Composers
- By: Darren Henley
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák, and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the backdrop of some of their finest works - an ideal combination.
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Famous Composers
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2012
- Language: English
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The History of Opera
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Here is the colorful story of sometimes temperamental composers and even more temperamental singers working in an art form which has produced some of man's noblest artistic creations. This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples by Naxos artists as well as some of the greatest singers of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso and Fyodor Chaliapin.
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Informative and entertaining
- By K. Lilyth on 02-08-2019
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The History of Opera
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-12-1999
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Tchaikovsky
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Malcolm Sinclair, Karen Archer, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. His melodies are known to many people who may never have heard his name. They crop up on mobile telephones, alarm clocks and answering machines as often as on records and concert programs. Like his music, the man himself was widely loved, but his inner life was fraught with sufferings, confusions and a deep vein of self-doubt. The drama of his emotional life is vividly reflected in his music, letters and diaries, all of which play a major part in this intimate portrait-in-sound.
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The Life and Works of Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Malcolm Sinclair, Karen Archer, Teresa Gallagher, Stephen Thorne, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2012
- Language: English
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The History of Theatre
- By: David Timson
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century. It is an absorbing listen, encompassing ancient tales, medieval theatre, Commedia dell'Arte, the great dramas of the Elizabethan age, and more.
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The History of Theatre
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2000
- Language: English
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Introducing Postmodernism
- By: Richard Appignanesi
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly "contemporary" culture, a virtual world of "hyperreality" containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama's proclaimed "end of history".
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A very good introduction
- By Amazon Customer on 27-10-2019
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2004
- Language: English
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Samson Agonistes
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: David de Keyser, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Samson Agonistes, the 'dramatic poem' by John Milton, was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the Chorus commenting on the action, it follows the biblical story of the blind Samson as he wreaks his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him. A powerful subject, with a personal resonance for the blind Milton, it is a perfect work for the medium of audiobook where poetry and drama can be balanced equally.
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Samson Agonistes
- Narrated by: David de Keyser, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, Samantha Bond, Michael Maloney
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2014
- Language: English
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