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The Life and Works of Mozart
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Nicholas Boulton, Edward de Souza, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most astonishing child prodigy in the history of music, is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfillment, unexpected poverty, and a tragically early death. Generously illustrated by Mozart’s music, from his fifth to his final year, this portrait-in-sound reveals a fascinating yet elusive character, drawing richly on the words of the composer himself and those who knew him.
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The Life and Works of Mozart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Nicholas Boulton, Edward de Souza, Teresa Gallagher, Elaine Claxton, Steve Hodson, Jacob Moriarty
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2012-11-15
- Language: English
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The Prophet & The Wanderer
- Written by: Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.
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The Prophet & The Wanderer
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2006-12-31
- Language: English
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Don Giovanni
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Don Giovanni has long been regarded as Mozart’s supreme theatrical achievement. The subject seems unpromising - the last day in the life of the notorious womanizer Don Juan - but the skill of the librettist allied to the genius of Mozart at the very peak of his powers has created a work which is not only highly entertaining but reflects an incredible understanding of the human condition.
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Don Giovanni
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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The Barber of Seville
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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The Barber of Seville is Rossini’s most popular opera. Its effervescent overture (written originally for another work!) presents a perfect platform for the amusing plot in which the barber, Figaro, stage-manages a romance between Count Almaviva and Rosina, and puts to flight the old suitor, Dr Bartolo. "Largo al Factotum" is one of the most popular arias in opera - nearly 200 years after its first performance it is still one of the great show-stoppers.
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The Barber of Seville
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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La Traviata
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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La Traviata owes its enduring popularity to a superb story of young love and fatal sacrifice, set to music by Italy’s master melodist at the peak of his powers. Interest and poignancy are added by the fact that this is a true story - the baritone ‘heavy’ is Alexander Dumas who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo. But it is the central figure, the heroine Violetta, the archetypal ‘whore with the heart of gold’ who dominates the piece. It is her opera and we love her for it.
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La Traviata
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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Life & Works - Johannes Brahms
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Jasper Britton, Karen Archer, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Brahms is one of the best loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful.
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Life & Works - Johannes Brahms
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Jasper Britton, Karen Archer, Elaine Claxton, Neville Jason, Nicholas Boulton, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2012-11-12
- Language: English
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Written by: Richard Appignanesi
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly "contemporary" culture, a virtual world of "hyperreality" containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama's proclaimed "end of history".
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 2004-12-26
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos, and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, to his death at the age of 39 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently. We think of Chopin as a "frail, sheltered genius" but this forthright portrait demonstrates he was far more boisterous than that.
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, Elaine Claxton, Karen Archer
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2012-01-01
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Bach
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, John Shrapnel, Trevor Nichols, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his twenty children. For the last twenty-seven years of his life he was a schoolteacher and choir director whose duties extended to meal supervision and dormitory inspection. Yet throughout his career he composed a vast body of music which is amongst the most joyful, dancing and enrapturing ever written.
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The Life and Works of Bach
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, John Shrapnel, Trevor Nichols, Ruth Sillers, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-29
- Language: English
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Puccini: La Bohème
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr
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La Bohème is one of the three operas - the others are Carmen and Aida - believed to be the most popular ever written. In the case of La Bohème the reason is that it virtually defines the term "romantic". The poignant story of Mimì and Rodolfo is told in music of such tender beauty, allied, as always, to Puccini’s intuition of what works in the theatre. The result is an opera that readily appeals to our emotions and senses.
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Puccini: La Bohème
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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The Flying Dutchman
- Opera Explained
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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The Flying Dutchman is the perfect opera with which to approach the operatic mountain that is Richard Wagner. It is short, has a great story (the legend of the Dutch captain doomed to sail forever unless redeemed through love), and the striking score has many pre-echoes of Wagner's later great music dramas. It contains wonderful tunes in its arias, ensembles, and big choruses, and the orchestral writing - from the gale that blows out of the Overture to the final theme of "Redemption through Love" - will "blow you away".
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The Flying Dutchman
- Opera Explained
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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Cathedrals: In a Nutshell
- Written by: Jonathan Gregson
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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For almost two millennia, cathedrals have been among the most imposing, astonishing and inspiring buildings in Europe. Regardless of faith, their scale and architectural daring has never ceased to spark wonder. This guide traces the development of the cathedral from its earliest beginnings as a Bishop’s house, through the Romanesque and Gothic periods and up to the most extravagant contemporary designs around the world.
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Good survey of Cathedrals
- By Donald Macdonald on 2020-03-26
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Cathedrals: In a Nutshell
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-05
- Language: English
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Beethoven in Words and Music
- Written by: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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When we think of Ludwig van Beethoven images of a stormy and passionate but tortured genius are brought to mind, alongside the transformative effect of his work on musical history. All of these things are true, but no artist lives in a vacuum, and even music that opens a portal onto 'the infinite realm of the spirit' has its wider context.
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Beethoven in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-29
- Language: English
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Fidelio
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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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. It is about heroism by a man who was often mean and petty in his human relations; it is about freedom by a man who was a prisoner of his own deafness; and ultimately it is about joy by a man who experienced precious little of it.
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Fidelio
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Bob Peck, Neville Jason, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors’ readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man’s music is more universal; few men’s lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one - his modest height - he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven’s music can be heard in the context of his life.
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The Life and Works of Beethoven
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Bob Peck, Neville Jason, David Timson, Elaine Claxton, Karen Archer
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2012-11-01
- Language: English
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Pagliacci may be the most completely compelling short opera in the repertory and owes much of its impact to a brilliant story based, it is said, on true life and told through the device of a play-within-a-play. The action is set in Calabria in the deep south of Italy where the jealousies and illicit passions of a troupe of strolling actors precisely intersect with the play they are performing - to both touching and tragic effect.
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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Verdi: Aida
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Ancient Egypt and the war with Ethiopia is the setting for Verdi’s grandest opera. It is the story of the love between Rhadames, the Egyptian general, and Aida, an Ethiopian slave, and the jealousy of Amneris, daughter of the King of Egypt. It was written in 1871 to a commission from the Khedive of Egypt to inaugurate the new opera house in Cairo. Aida generally is considered one of the most spectacular of Verdi’s operas.
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Verdi: Aida
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Based on the simple yet deeply moving legendary tale of Orpheus, who loses his beloved wife to death but is able to restore her through the power of his music, Orfeo ed Euridice is among the earliest operas to hold a secure place in the repertory. Gluck lavishes a wealth of beautiful melody on this tale, whose appeal to composers is obvious; yet the abiding strength lies in the power and majesty of his inspiration, whether in the solos, the choruses, or the ballet music.
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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Carmen
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Carmen is among the most popular operas for all the obvious reasons: great characters, a gripping story, and fabulous music. But what sets it on a pinnacle is an amazing combination of three factors: a sizzling Gipsy heroine (one of the most psychologically complex and compelling characters in all theatre), great atmosphere (Spain, hot sun, the bull-ring), and the prodigality of melodic invention - one great tune after another, at least a dozen of which are the staples of Madison Avenue and the animated cartoon.
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Carmen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-26
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Tchaikovsky
- Written by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Malcolm Sinclair, Karen Archer, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. His melodies are known to many people who may never have heard his name. They crop up on mobile telephones, alarm clocks and answering machines as often as on records and concert programs. Like his music, the man himself was widely loved, but his inner life was fraught with sufferings, confusions and a deep vein of self-doubt. The drama of his emotional life is vividly reflected in his music, letters and diaries, all of which play a major part in this intimate portrait-in-sound.
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The Life and Works of Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Malcolm Sinclair, Karen Archer, Teresa Gallagher, Stephen Thorne, David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-31
- Language: English
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