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Verdi: Rigoletto
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Rigoletto is simply wonderful entertainment with superb music. It is also much more - a daring (for its time) attack on aristocratic privilege, a tender love story, and an impassioned appeal on behalf of the disadvantaged, all set to music of such wealth and beauty that, with its sister operas La traviata and Il trovatore, it has defined Italian opera for 150 years. Overcoming initial trouble with the censors, Verdi's Rigoletto was a smash hit at its premiere and has not been out of the repertoire since. It’s not hard to see why.
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Fun intro (or recap) of the opera
- By EmilyK on 05-24-18
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Verdi: Rigoletto
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Debussy in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. While our ears no longer hear him as controversial, his works heralded the dawn of an artistic period founded on innovation and experiment, and a desire to break with the past in search of new expressive means. With never a dull moment, Debussy went from being a musical misfit at the Paris Conservatoire to bohemian life amongst the Symbolist poets and some scandalous love affairs.
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Debussy in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-29-22
- Language: English
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The Prophet & The Wanderer
- 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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Perfection
- By MidwestLady on 01-08-12
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The Prophet & The Wanderer
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-31-06
- Language: English
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- 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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The Baroque in all its splendor
- By Adeliese Baumann on 05-17-13
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- By: David McCleery
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's best-loved composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. Discover: Music of the Romantic Era charts the course of music through those turbulent but exhilarating times with 40 music excerpts. Light-hearted but authoritative, it tells the fascinating, often scandalous life stories of the 19th century's greatest composers and describes how they created musical history.
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-19-09
- Language: English
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Introducing Postmodernism
- 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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Severely Lacking
- By Jim on 08-29-07
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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The Phantom of the Opera
- By: Gastón Leroux
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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This 19th century French thriller tells of the mysterious Erik, grotesque and elusive "phantom," who hides himself from the world in the labyrinthine bowels of the Paris Opera and entices with his angelic voice the beautiful opera singer Christine. Her abduction prompts a dramatic search not only for her, but also for the truth about her strange captor.
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The Phantom of the Opera
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-26-99
- Language: English
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Verdi: Aida
- 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: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Tchaikovsky in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Is there any music more instantly recognizable and beautifully scored than Tchaikovsky’s wildly popular ballet Swan Lake? These and other works have become enduring classics, yet they were not uncontroversial in Tchaikovsky’s day, and there are those that still wonder if his style is fundamentally European or ardently Russian. Find out more about Tchaikovsky’s childhood obsession with music, his turbulent relationships with friends and colleagues, and how he overcame the deepest of personal crises to transcend all with an ambition that has left us with some of the greatest music ever written.
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Tchaikovsky in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-26-23
- Language: English
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Joseph Haydn
- His Life and Works
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Symphonies, quartets, concertos and keyboard works poured from the pen of Joseph Haydn, making him one of the most important figures in classical music. Jeremy Siepmann tells the story of the man and his work in this lively autobiography, enhanced by numerous examples of the music itself, taken from the Naxos catalogue. There is no better programme with which to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
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Great history of Haydn
- By Kip on 07-16-09
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Joseph Haydn
- His Life and Works
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-19-09
- Language: English
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Verdi: Falstaff
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career - distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces - with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the 80-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime.
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Verdi: Falstaff
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Carmen
- 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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Passion, power, and truth
- By Adeliese Baumann on 12-08-13
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Carmen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Fidelio
- 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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Beethoven's only opera in all its glory
- By Adeliese Baumann on 04-20-13
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Fidelio
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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La sonnambula
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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La sonnambula was written by Bellini as a vehicle for two of the supreme singers of his age and accordingly is a fine example of the school we call bel canto, where beauty of voice and the virtuosity of the singers is integral to conveying the emotions in the soul of the composer. The fact that Bellini was one of the great melodists, writing long, beautiful vocal lines, that he was a master orchestrator and that he could write stirringly for the chorus all conspire to make La sonnambula extremely enjoyable.
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La sonnambula
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- 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: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Tancredi
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Rossini’s comic operas, like The Barber of Seville, are better known than his tragedies though he wrote in fact many more tragedies than comedies. One of them, his last, William Tell, is actually credited with launching the whole age of Grand Opéra. Tancredi is an early work - indeed his first smash hit - and it established his international fame.
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Tancredi
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Beethoven in Words and Music
- 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: 07-29-22
- Language: English
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Mozart in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Tchaikovsky declared that Mozart was 'full of divine beauty', and Schubert's wonder at the 'countless images of a brighter and better world' that Mozart was able to conjure up through his music knew no bounds. Many of us carry the image of Mozart as a transcendent genius, but what do we really know about his life and career, and indeed his music? This entertaining and informative biography takes us from Mozart's beginnings as a child prodigy to his greatest successes and cruellest setbacks.
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Mozart in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-29-22
- Language: English
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L'elisir d'amore
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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L’elisir d’amore, or The Elixir of Love, has remained popular for almost two centuries because of a touching tale and a galaxy of comic characters adapted from the traditional commedia dell’ arte. Above all Donizetti poured into the score all the warmth and tenderness of the Italian temperament.
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L'elisir d'amore
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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Werther
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Massenet’s Werther combines a deeply tender story with music of beauty and eloquence. One act alone contains two of the greatest arias in the repertoire: the mezzo-soprano aria "Va! Laisse couler mes larmes" and the tenor’s "Pourquoi me rèveiller". In their sentimental power and melodic richness these arias encapsulate the qualities that account for the universal popularity of this great work.
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Werther
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-26-12
- Language: English
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