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Ballet Stories
by David Angus
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98)
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...
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The Best of Mark Twain In Person, Volume 1
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio Download ($1.00)
Studio recorded selections from Richard Henzel's celebrated stage play.
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: 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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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
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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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: 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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Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Formats: 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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Fidelio: An Introduction to Beethoven's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Formats: Audio CD ($8.09)
Fidelio is a work like no other. Beethoven's only opera is about the joy of married love-by a man who never knew that pleasure.
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The Flying Dutchman: An Introduction to Wagner
by Thomson Smille
Formats: Audio CD ($8.09)
Wagner is the Everest of opera. Viewed from the foothills, his towering masterpieces, with their lofty themes and sometimes extraordinary length, can seem to test the endurance of all but the fanatic.
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Fresh Air: Best of Stage and Screen
by Terry Gross
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Drawn from 13 years of engaging, intelligent talks with actors, directors, playwrights, producers, icons, and legends, this collection features many interviews never before available on CD.
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Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
by Jeffrey Siegel
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95)
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: The Power and Passion of Beethoven
by Jeffrey Siegel
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
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: The Romance of the Piano
by Jeffrey Siegel
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
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: The Romanticism of the Russian Soul
by Jeffrey Siegel
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
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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La Traviata: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Formats: Audio CD ($8.99)
La traviata, an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas…
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The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Formats: 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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Madama Butterfly: An Introduction to Puccini's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Formats: Audio CD ($8.09)
Average Rating:   (3.0 Stars)
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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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: 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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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Formats: 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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Opera
by iMinds JNR
Formats: Audio Download ($1.00)
Learn about the history of Opera with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds.
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Paul Robeson: The Actor
by Sheila Evans
Formats: Audio Download ($13.99)
Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor.
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Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
Formats: Audio Download ($12.57)
In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti...
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Rigoletto: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Formats: Audio CD ($8.09)
Rigoletto is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed in Venice on March 11, 1851.
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Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: 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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Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: 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 Soloist
by Steve Lopez
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96)
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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