Discover Music of the Romantic Era (EN) - David McCleery (mp3 audiokniha)

Discover Music of the Romantic Era (EN) - David McCleery (mp3 audiokniha)

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 these turbulent but exhilarating times with more than 20 music

Discover Music of the Baroque Era (EN) - Clive Unger-Hamilton (mp3 audiokniha)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion (EN) - David Hume (mp3 audiokniha)

The Vikings (EN) - David Angus (mp3 audiokniha)

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid

Famous Composers (EN) - Darren Henley (mp3 audiokniha)

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the

Composers’ Letters (EN) - Jan Fielden (mp3 audiokniha)

In Composers’ Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and many more talk openly about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their

The History of Theatre (EN) - David Timson (mp3 audiokniha)

This bold undertaking covers Western theatre from ancient Greece to the present day. It traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Molière and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the nineteenth century and the main movements in the

Youth & Heart of Darkness (EN) - Joseph Conrad (mp3 audiokniha)

In these two magnificent novellas Conrad explores the question of self-discovery through powerful and exciting narratives in Youth, the experienced seaman Marlow tells the story of a young man’s coming of age on his first voyage to the East. While in Heart of Darkness he describes with

The History of Classical Music (EN) - Richard Fawkes (mp3 audiokniha)

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions

The History of Science (EN) - Peter Whitfield (mp3 audiokniha)

This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do. Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and power has now given us a world dominated by

The Song of Roland (EN) - – Unknown (mp3 audiokniha)

The House of the Dead (EN) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (mp3 audiokniha)

The Call of the Wild (EN) - Jack London (mp3 audiokniha)

The History of the Musical (EN) - Richard Fawkes (mp3 audiokniha)

The Custom of the Country (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Opera Explained – The Ring of the Nibelung (EN) - Stephen Johnson (mp3 audiokniha)

Wagner’s Ring cycle is the most ambitious work in the history of music: four operas that combine to tell a single epic story. Based in legend, it has become a legend in its own right: a supreme challenge for conductors, singers, opera producers, and indeed for audiences. But for all its

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (EN) - Mark Twain (mp3 audiokniha)

The Merchant of Venice (EN) - William Shakespeare (mp3 audiokniha)

The History of Rasselas (EN) - Samuel Johnson (mp3 audiokniha)

The Adventures of Roderick Random (EN) - Tobias Smollett (mp3 audiokniha)

The Count of Monte Cristo (EN) - Alexandre Dumas (mp3 audiokniha)

The Interior Castle (EN) - St Teresa of Ávila (mp3 audiokniha)

Life & Works – Franz Liszt (EN) - Jeremy Siepmann (mp3 audiokniha)

The life of Franz Liszt was as daring and spectacular as his music. Famed throughout Europe as the greatest pianist of the nineteenth century, he was one of the most original and prophetic composers who ever lived. Beautiful in youth, glowering in age, his high-profile love affairs were the talk

Opera Explained – The Barber of Seville (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)