AuthorJeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration4h 58m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Music
Key StageA Level
PublisherNaxos
VersionUnabridged
Brahms is one of the best-loved yet most controversial of the Romantic composers. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, Brahms was consumed by a sense of destiny, and his inner life, coloured by his adoration and fear of women, found expression in his music.
The History of Classical Music
Author: Richard Fawkes
Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 13m
Robert Powell narrates the history of over 1000 years of Western classical music, from Gregorian chant to Henryk Gorecki. Many musical expressions and musical forms are explained and illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.
View BookMusic: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Nicholas Cook
Author Nicholas Cook
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 3h 46m
This Very Short Introduction invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. It questions all the social and institutional structures that condition our thinking about music.
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 5h 3m
This audiobook examines the life and music of one of the key figures in Romantic music, pianist-composer Frederic Chopin, and includes many examples of his work. Regarded as one of the most mesmerising performers of his day, Chopin created waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much more. Here i...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 4h 9m
Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. Like his music, the man himself was well-loved, but his inner life was fraught with suffering 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.
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 5h 30m
This audiobook examines the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven and includes many examples of his work. The author illustrates how Beethoven's music developed throughout his life, and how he coped with his increasing deafness.
View BookLife and Works: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 5h
This audiobook examines the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi and includes many examples of his work. The author illustrates how Giuseppe's music developed throughout his life.
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 4h 30m
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was a brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen. He was entirely consumed by his art and lived a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home to Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven) and died almost penniless at the age of thirty one. This audiobook explores the darker side to Schubert and is illust...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 4h 52m
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the most astonishing child prodigy in the history of music. Dominated by a highly intelligent and ambitious father, his story traces the development of a unique genius, from precocious childhood to his tragically early death. Mozart's story is accompanied by his music, with examples taken from as early as his fifth year.
View BookAn Introduction To Mozart: The Magic Flute
Author: Thomson Smillie
Author Thomson Smillie
Narrator David Timson
Duration 1h 10m
'The Magic Flute' almost defines a masterpiece, because it can be enjoyed on every level. It is a superb fairy story, complete with dragons, demons, a handsome prince, and a lovely maiden seriously in need of rescue; it is a political satire, social commentary, and psychological drama; it is full of tunes from the playful to the heart-stopping, jol...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 4h 34m
Although widely thought of as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame, as a composer, by two of his 20 children. This portrait includes many examples of his immortal music.
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