Classical Music Memoir

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    • A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
    • By: Philip Kennicott
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork....

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    • The Composer and His Work
    • By: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....

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    • A Personal Guide
    • By: Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

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    • By: Darren Henley
    • Narrated by: Marin Alsop
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

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    • My Story
    • By: David Ritz, Lang Lang
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The autobiography of the very talented classical pianist Lang Lang. A remarkable, dramatic story of a family who sacrificed almost everything for the belief in a young boy's talent....

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    • By: Fred Plotkin
    • Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers....

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    • Coming of Age in the Land of Opera
    • By: Jane Glover
    • Narrated by: Jane Glover
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart’s Women and Handel in London....

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    • A Musical Wayfarer
    • By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, and provides an insightful biography of the great composer, revealing his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius....

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    • The Music, the Man and How He Became an Icon
    • By: Donald Macleod
    • Narrated by: Donald Macleod
    • Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • He was a revolutionary, an innovator, a disruptor. A man who accomplished incredible success but endured serious personal hardships....

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    • Masters of Classical Music
    • By: The History Hour
    • Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • Probably the most naturally gifted musician the world has ever known, Mozart began his career early as a child prodigy. Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music. Learn about them in this audiobook....

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    • A Musical Biography
    • By: Perry Keenlyside
    • Narrated by: Nigel Anthony, Paul Rhys
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time. Copiously illustrated with examples of his music....

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    • The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....

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    • Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
    • By: Blair Tindall
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music....

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    • Why He Matters
    • By: Harvey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Arnold Schoenberg from notoriety, Schoenberg restores him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers....

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    • By: Davina Caddy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The ambiguous details of Robert Schumann’s psychological decline and death have tended to dominate his biography. Yet in his time Schumann was lauded as a protean Romantic literary genius whose writings, as a music critic, poet, novelist and dramatist, eclipsed his musical creativity.

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    • My World
    • By: Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright
    • Narrated by: David Dukes
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 20-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the world of opera, no figure in our time loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti....

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    • By: Davinia Caddy
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-23
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music
    • By: Janet Horvath
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz
    • Series: Holocaust Heritage, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery.

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