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Ten Masterpieces of Music
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Ten Masterpieces of Music
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Publisher's Summary
In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of 10 great works of classical music - works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters - Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky - communicated their life experiences through music, and through music they universalized the intimate.
By expanding our perceptions of these 10 pieces - composed in the years between 1784 and 1966 - Sachs, in lush, exquisite prose, invites us to consider why music stimulates, disturbs, exalts, and consoles us. He has lived with these masterpieces for a lifetime, and his descriptions of them and the dramatic lives of the composers who wrote them bring a heightened dimension to our musical perceptions - whether we’re casual listeners, students, professional musicians, or anyone in between.