AuthorRichard Fawkes
NarratorRobert Powell
Duration5h 13m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Music
Key StageKS4
PublisherNaxos
VersionAbridged
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.
Life 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 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 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.
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 4h 58m
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.
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: Richard Fawkes
Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 19m
A history of opera from its beginnings in the 16th century through to to present day, with examples from Monteverdi to Wagner.
View BookThe Instruments of the Orchestra
Author: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 8h 1m
This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts (orchestral, chamber, folk, solo, operatic, cinematic) and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Joining regular members are such exotic visitors as the eerie ondes martenot, the wind machine, banjos, bagpipes, coconuts, typewriters and migrating swans!
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 4h 40m
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds. A classic rags-to-riches tale, it sees him move from humble beginnings through decades as a liveried servant to his emergence as the most popular and successful composer of his time. One of the healthiest and least neurotic artists in musi...
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Kim Criswell
Duration 5h 17m
Featuring over 120 musical examples, this audiobook traces the musical from its origins in classical music, (Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', Offenbach's operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America with 'Showboat', 'Anything Goes', 'High Society', 'Guys and Dolls', 'Oklahoma', 'West Side Story', 'The Sound of Music', 'Oliver'...
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...
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