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Opera Explained – Carmen (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

Opera Explained – Don Giovanni (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

Opera Explained – La Traviata (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

Opera Explained – The Flying Dutchman (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Opera Explained – Aida (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

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

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,

Opera Explained – Orfeo ed Euridice (EN) - Thomson Smillie (mp3 audiokniha)

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

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

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