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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio Download
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download
Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. James Marsters and Joanne Whalley star in this newly produced full cast dramatization.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The History of Classical Music
by Richard Fawkes
Credits: Audio Download
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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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 Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio Download
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...
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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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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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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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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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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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Classical Music 101
by Fred Plotkin
Credits: Audio Download
Classical Music 101 is a highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music.
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Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Credits: Audio Download
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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The History of the Musical
by Richard Fawkes
Credits: Audio Download
The musical is one of the great art forms of the 20th century.
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The Soloist
by Steve Lopez
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musiciandestined to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.
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Ballet Stories
by David Angus
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...
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Discover Music of the Romantic Era
by David McCleery
Credits: Audio Download
Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's best-loved composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky.
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The Life of Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Credits: Audio Download
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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