Year of Wonder

Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day

De: Clemency Burton-Hill

Narrado por: Clemency Burton-Hill

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Unusable

As you'd expect from a successful radio personality, Clemency Burton-Hill's narration of Year of Wonder is effective and engaging. The content is fine -- nothing particularly illuminating or insightful, but an enjoyable and idiosyncratic collection of brief introductory vignettes to lots of fantastic music. As an audiobook, though, this title is fatally flawed. I wasn't expecting the music to be included (the licensing would be a nightmare, presumably), but I was expecting each "chapter" to be a separate track. Instead, however, each track corresponds to a month's worth of intros, and even though Audible ostensibly remembers where I've left off each time, this grouping of ~ 30 essays into each track makes the audiobook very hard to navigate. Whoever made this decision clearly didn't spend even a moment thinking about how this book was designed to be read or listened to. I would steer clear of the audio book, and consider the print version instead.

narrator is great but NO Music

says it showcases a classical peice each day but it only includes the intro, it cuts to the next day as soon as she claims "enjoy the following". I guess I should have figured, my disappointment is my own and not the audiobooks fault. The narrator is great and does a fantastic job.