The Life and Works of Chopin (EN) - Jeremy Siepmann (mp3 audiokniha)

The Life and Works of Beethoven (EN) - Jeremy Siepmann (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Life and Works of Beethoven, written by Jeremy Siepmann. The first of a series of musical biographies, written and presented by broadcaster Jeremy Siepmann, with Bob Peck as Beethoven. In this set the life and music of the revolutionary composer/pianist is unveiled in considerable

The Life and Works of Chopin (EN) - Jeremy Siepmann (mp3 audiokniha)

Fryderyk Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland,

Life & Works – Antonín Dvořák - Jeremy Siepmann (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

The Life of Mozart (EN) - Perry Keenlyside (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Life of Mozart written by Perry Keenlyside. 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, it tells of Mozart’s extraordinary childhood travelling the courts of Europe, and

The Life of Oscar Wilde (EN) - Hesketh Pearson (mp3 audiokniha)

The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society…

The Republic (EN) - Platón (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Republic by Plato. One of the key works of world philosophy, Plato’s The Republic sets out to consider the principles behind an ideal city state. This is the first audio recording of Plato’s great classic in a new translation by the Greek scholar Tom Griffith. No sooner than

The Spoils of Poynton (EN) - Henry James (mp3 audiokniha)

Published in 1897, The Spoils of Poynton is one of the quintessential works of James’s middle period. The ‘spoils’ of the book’s title refer to furniture and other objets d’art that the widow Adela Gereth moves to her cottage so that they are kept away from the clutches of her coarse

Ulysses (EN) - James Joyce (mp3 audiokniha)

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language, regarded by many as the single most important novel of the twentieth century

A Life of Shakespeare (EN) - Hesketh Pearson (mp3 audiokniha)

A popular biography which looks at the life of the playwright in part through the plays themselves. The intricacies of Elizabethan drama set the background for the tale of the greatest dramatist

A Life of Dante (EN) - Benedict Flynn (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook A Life of Dante written by Benedict Flynn. Dante’s vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio)

Machiavelli: His Life and Times (EN) - Alexander Lee (mp3 audiokniha)

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps,

Utopia (EN) - Thomas More (mp3 audiokniha)

Thomas More’s Utopia stands out as one of the most striking political works ever written. Composed speci cally as a response to Henry VIII’s break with Rome, the book meditates on the perfect society, while indirectly critiquing the political and social ills of Tudor England. Containing

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories (EN) - H. P. Lovecraft (mp3 audiokniha)

Hedda Gabler (EN) - Henrik Ibsen (mp3 audiokniha)

Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who

Opera Explained – Die Fledermaus (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

Die Fledermaus is one of the few operatic works to which the phrase ‘never a dull moment’ can be truthfully applied. From the explosive opening of the famous overture – reminiscent of a volley of champagne corks – through the surging energy of the ‘Fledermaus Waltz’ and the many comic

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)

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

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

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