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

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 the Musical (EN) - Richard Fawkes (mp3 audiokniha)

The History of Opera (EN) - Richard Fawkes (mp3 audiokniha)

Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. Following the widely acclaimed History of Classical Music, Richard Fawkes traces the history of

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

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

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

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 Beetle (EN) - Richard Marsh (mp3 audiokniha)

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

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

The History of English Literature (EN) - Perry Keenlyside (mp3 audiokniha)

Perry Keenlyside tells the remarkable story of the world’s richest literary resource. The story-telling, the poetry, the growth of the novel and the great histories and essays which have informed the language and the imagination wherever English is spoken. This is the fourth in the Naxos

To the Island of Tides (EN) - Alistair Moffat (mp3 audiokniha)

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, he takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars,

The Island Race (EN) - Sir Winston Churchill (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Island Race, written by Sir Winston Churchill. Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill’s resonant prose brings to vivid and compelling life the

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

Two Years Before the Mast (EN) - Richard Henry Dana Jr (mp3 audiokniha)

Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr’s captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author’s eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect on Dana, whose

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 Communist Manifesto (EN) - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (mp3 audiokniha)

Without question one of the most significant books in modern history, The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of Communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilise much of the European establishment,

History of the Conquest of Mexico (EN) - W.H. Prescott (mp3 audiokniha)

In 1519, Hernando Cortés arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams – an advanced civilisation with complex artistic, political and religious systems (involving extensive human sacrifice) and replete with gold. This was the

The Last of the Mohicans (EN) - James Fenimore Cooper (mp3 audiokniha)

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Intrepid frontiersman and scout Natty ‘Hawkeye’ Bumppo, has lived among Indians for most of his life, respecting their customs and

The Last of the Mohicans (EN) - James Fenimore Cooper (mp3 audiokniha)

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Hawkeye and his friends, Ghingachgook and Uncas, are the last remaining Mohican chieftains. When the evil Magua threatens the life of an

King Richard III (EN) - William Shakespeare (mp3 audiokniha)

Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press

Famous People in History – Volume 1 (EN) - Nicolas Soames (mp3 audiokniha)

Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus, who set off into unknown seas in a small ship in the fifteenth century, to a young girl, Anne Frank, caught in the turmoil of the twentieth, who wrote a remarkable

The History of Western Art (EN) - Peter Whitfield (mp3 audiokniha)

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic

Famous People in History – Volume 2 (EN) - Nicolas Soames (mp3 audiokniha)

There is a need for accessible short biographies of key people for younger listeners. Following the success of Famous People, Volume I, Nicolas Soames presents another varied group of men and women who have changed the course of history. This is the second volume of popular histories of famous