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Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor.
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Keyboard Conversations: The Romance of the Piano
by Jeffrey Siegel
Credits: Audio CD
World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
by Jeffrey Siegel
Credits: Audio CD
World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The musical is one of the great art forms of the 20th century.
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The Life and Works of Chopin
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio CD
Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence.
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Keyboard Conversations: The Romanticism of the Russian Soul
by Jeffrey Siegel
Credits: Audio CD
World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before.
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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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 Best of Mark Twain In Person, Volume 1
by Mark Twain
Credits: Audio Download
Studio recorded selections from Richard Henzel's celebrated stage play.
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The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
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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Mozart: The Golden Touch
by Lister Sinclair
Credits: Audio CD
First broadcast on CBC in 1991, this elegant five-part radio dramatization on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart includes musical performances of his most famous compositions.
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Madama Butterfly: An Introduction to Puccini's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Credits: Audio CD
Madama Butterfly truly does run the game of operate emotion day that of Madama Butterfly issued to an American senior and then afterward engages out enclose as it obviously did Puccini's to a degree equaled by new other opera hoarsens.
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