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Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Poet, novelist and playwright Beckett embodied a radical response to the outrageous events of two world wars.
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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The History of Theatre
by David Timson
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
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...
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Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
by Richard Freedman
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far.
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio Download ($21.58) | Audio CD ($24.28) | Audio Cassette
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette
Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...
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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...
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Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
From the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great.
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Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)
Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich.
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Paul Robeson: The Actor
by Sheila Evans
Available on: Audio Download ($13.99)
Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor.
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Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
When Mozart was born, Europe was dominated by wealthy and powerful monarchies, with their kings and aristocrats. What we call 'Classical Music' emerged in the royal courts of these kingdoms.
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The History of the Musical
by Richard Fawkes
Available on: Audio Download ($21.58) | Audio CD ($24.28) | Audio Cassette
The musical is one of the great art forms of the 20th century.
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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)
The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US.
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The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Hear the story behind today's most often performed classical composer's accomplishments, during his short life of just 35 years.
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The Best of Mark Twain In Person, Volume 1
by Mark Twain
Available on: Audio Download ($1.00)
Studio recorded selections from Richard Henzel's celebrated stage play.
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Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Available on: Audio Download ($31.95) | Audio CD ($120.00) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette ($85.95) | MP3 CD ($39.95)
Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher and former performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the riches of opera, the fastest growing of all the performing arts.
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Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
Available on: Audio Download ($12.57) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti...
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Classical Music 101
by Fred Plotkin
Available on: Audio Download ($31.95) | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Classical Music 101 is a highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music.
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Ballet Stories
by David Angus
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98) | Audio Cassette
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...
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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio Download ($28.79) | Audio CD ($28.98)
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
Available on: Audio Download ($31.95) | Audio CD ($31.46) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($44.95)
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences.
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The History of Classical Music
by Richard Fawkes
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette
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.
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