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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- Narrado por: Laura Tunbridge
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Not Just for Wagner Experts!
- De Rupert Pupkin en 09-26-20
De: Alex Ross
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Music
- A Subversive History
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Squeezing cherry-picked facts into a simplistic narrative
- De Erik A. Ritland en 11-24-20
De: Ted Gioia
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Fryderyk Chopin
- A Life and Times
- De: Dr. Alan Walker
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is a masterpiece
- De Carpe Diem en 02-09-19
De: Dr. Alan Walker
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Apollo's Angels
- A History of Ballet
- De: Jennifer Homans
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 23 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
For more than 400 years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to 16th-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a great book poorly read
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-11
De: Jennifer Homans
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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Shakespeare's Library
- Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
- De: Stuart Kells
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces, and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens, and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the Bard's manuscripts, books, or letters has ever been found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dismissed Mary Sidney Herbert without explanation
- De Lisa en 07-30-19
De: Stuart Kells
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 29 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidescopic panorama of an enigmatic culture.
- De Tarquin en 02-13-19
De: Orlando Figes
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When Paris Sizzled
- The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them - one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but no sizzle
- De OzEnigma en 06-01-17
De: Mary McAuliffe
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: James Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Note!--Abridged version
- De Scott en 01-05-16
De: James Shapiro
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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The Man in the Red Coat
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker, and man of science with a famously complicated private life....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pathetic narration makes this title unbearable
- De Chris Quigg en 02-27-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- De: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 38
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bard’s biography is a “black hole,” yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) “immoral.” In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Virgil Tracy en 06-03-23
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
- What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, soldiers and writers, conservatives and liberals alike—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines. In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare’s four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Entertaining History Lesson
- De David en 08-17-20
De: James Shapiro
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They Done Good
- De DonnaMarie113 en 06-26-22
De: John Szwed
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Great Piano Works Explained
- De: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Catherine Kautsky
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended!!
- De Meichiko en 10-27-22
De: Catherine Kautsky, y otros
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
De: Christoph Wolff
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Beethoven
- Anguish and Triumph
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 39 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Huge book - musical reader appreciates best
- De DMgraphicGlass en 01-20-15
De: Jan Swafford
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The Life & Times of Beethoven
- The First Angry Man
- De: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Robert Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 592
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 523
In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since. Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WHAT no music????
- De THS en 11-12-19
De: Robert Greenberg, y otros
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Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion
- De: Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Bill Messenger
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 617
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 612
Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation. Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Disappointingly Distorted, Myopic View Of Jazz
- De Parallax View en 08-18-13
De: Bill Messenger, y otros
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Great Piano Works Explained
- De: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Catherine Kautsky
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended!!
- De Meichiko en 10-27-22
De: Catherine Kautsky, y otros
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
De: Christoph Wolff
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Beethoven
- Anguish and Triumph
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 39 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Huge book - musical reader appreciates best
- De DMgraphicGlass en 01-20-15
De: Jan Swafford
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The Life & Times of Beethoven
- The First Angry Man
- De: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Robert Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 592
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 523
In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since. Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WHAT no music????
- De THS en 11-12-19
De: Robert Greenberg, y otros
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Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion
- De: Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Bill Messenger
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 617
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 612
Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation. Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Disappointingly Distorted, Myopic View Of Jazz
- De Parallax View en 08-18-13
De: Bill Messenger, y otros
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Language of the Spirit
- An Introduction to Classical Music
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces listeners to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great intro to various important composers & works
- De Jay G en 06-14-18
De: Jan Swafford
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Paradise Lost
- A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- De: David S. Brown
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The newest definitive Fitzgerald biography
- De Praxia en 01-08-18
De: David S. Brown
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- De: John Clubbe
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
De: John Clubbe
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Schubert
- A Musical Wayfarer
- De: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one.
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Chopin's Piano
- In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music
- De: Paul Kildea
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
In November 1838, Frederic Chopin settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where he finished what would eventually be recognized as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism: his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island, so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, Juan Bauza. Chopin's Piano traces the history of Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Amazon Customer en 03-22-23
De: Paul Kildea
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Year of Wonder
- Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day
- De: Clemency Burton-Hill
- Narrado por: Clemency Burton-Hill
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 12
Classical music has a reputation for being stuffy, boring, and largely inaccessible, but Burton-Hill is here to change that. An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and musician with a deep love of the art form, she wants everyone to feel welcome at the classical party, and her desire to share her passion for its diverse wonders inspired this unique, enlightening, and expertly curated treasury. Year of Wonder introduces listeners to one piece of music each day of the year, artfully selected from across genres, time periods, and composers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unusable
- De PA en 01-01-19
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Mozart
- The Reign of Love
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 30 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: A man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive Bio
- De Judy en 01-07-21
De: Jan Swafford
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The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles
- How Music Has Shaped Civilization
- De: Howard Goodall
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multilayered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex. In his dynamic tour through forty thousand years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation—harmony, notation, sung theater, the orchestra, dance music, recording—strikes us with its original force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great intro to musc history
- De Enthusiast en 03-06-16
De: Howard Goodall
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Mozart: A Life from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Jimmy Kieffer
- Duración: 1 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifetime as a child prodigy and a musical genius. His travels throughout Europe exposed him to art, music, and education, offering plentiful opportunities for his gifts as a composer and musician to evolve and thrive. Despite his preternatural talents, the artist struggled significantly throughout his life, and he died in his prime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short but informative look at a legend
- De The Red Queen en 03-23-18
De: Hourly History
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- De: Harvey Sachs
- Narrado por: Patrick Egan
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s wars. Ironically, the premiere of this hymn to universal brotherhood took place in Vienna, the capital of a nation that Metternich was turning into the first modern police state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a gem of an audiobook
- De D. Littman en 07-19-10
De: Harvey Sachs
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Mozart
- A Life
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships.
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3 out of 5 stars
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For a book about Mozart, not much Mozart.
- De LZ en 04-15-15
De: Paul Johnson
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The Story of Greece and Rome
- De: Tony Spawforth
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East.
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4 out of 5 stars
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All is in the title....
- De Mohad Cheridi en 11-30-18
De: Tony Spawforth
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beethoven
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- Alex Scriabin
- 04-25-23
Laura Turnbridge is an excellent author & narrator
I just finished "Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces" on audible and have started reading the author's book on Schumann's late style. The concept for this book was extremely well-thought-out. Biographies of musicians tend to fall into two camps: those that focus more on analyzing the works of the artists, and those that focus more on biographical details. Laura is able to weave both together. The man emerges in the context of his works, and she manages to provide insights into Vienna of his day as well. I learned about Viennese coffee culture at the time, the effect of the Napoleonic wars on the city and its cultural institutions, and so forth. Beethoven's relationship with society at large as well as his friendships and family relations are woven into the tapestry of the narrative. Instead of opting for a typical chronological biography, Laura builds the biography around the works discussed. The chapter on the "Eroica" and "Fidelio" were two of my favorites. Warmly recommended. This was a pleasure to listen to: not overly long and the author is an excellent narrator.
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- George
- 07-04-22
Engaging, interesting, nice format
I really liked the nine chapter format with each chapter revolving around a particular piece(s) of Beethoven’s music. This prompted me to listen to more Beethoven than I had before. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I hope to find other biographies of classical musicians that use the same format. Highly recommended!
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