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Title: Vivaldi

Author: Darren Henley

Narrator: Marin Alsop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-13

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story from the Famous Composers collection.

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music are told against the backdrop of some of their finest works, an ideal combination.

Editorial Reviews:

Excerpted from the Audie-nominated production Famous Composers, this profile of the baroque master Antonio Vivaldi combines narration, reenactments, and musical selections to paint an all-encompassing portrait sure to be enjoyed by fans of all ages. Esteemed musicologist Darren Henley, OBE, provides the text, and noted conductor Marin Alsop brings a lively, inviting tone to her narration that perfectly suits the personality and musical style of the Venetian violin virtuoso, Catholic priest, and composer of sonatas, symphonies, operas and concerti, including his masterful Four Seasons.

Critic Reviews:

2005 Audie Award Winner, Original Work

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Title: Hemingway Lives!

Subtitle: Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today

Author: Clancy Sigal

Narrator: Kevin Free

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

With the release of a flurry of feature and TV films about his life and work, and the publication of new books looking at his correspondence, his boat, and even his favorite cocktails, Ernest Hemingway is once again center stage of contemporary culture. Now, in this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America's most storied writer, Clancy Sigal, himself a National Book Award runner-up, presents a persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers and listeners today.

Sigal breaks new ground in celebrating Hemingway's passionate and unapologetic political partisanship, his stunningly concise, no-frills writing style, and an attitude to sex and sexuality much more nuanced than he is traditionally credited with. Simply for the pleasure provided by a consummate story teller, Hemingway is as much a must-read author as ever.

Though Hemingway Lives! will provide plenty that's new for those already familiar with Papa's oeuvre, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work. Those venturing into Hemingway's writing for the first time will find in Sigal an inspirational and erudite guide.

Editorial Reviews:

Ernest Hemingway persists as an icon of American literature, and what Clancy Sigal so eloquently argues in Hemingway Lives! is that his legacy lives on, his writing remaining as relevant as ever. Sigal's analysis is an intriguing mix of biography and literary criticism that explores Hemingway's political leanings, the accusations of misogyny in his work, his attitudes towards sexuality, and his bluntly efficient prose. Kevin Free performs with a pleasing crispness that enables the listener to become fully engrossed in Sigal's arguments, and his appropriately unobtrusive style foregrounds Hemingway's own remarkable words, helping prove his deserved place in the canon.

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Title: Neon Air

Author: Gary M. Gorman

Narrator: Gary Gorman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-13

Publisher: Gary Gorman

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Descriptions of three musical compositions by Gary M. Gorman. A composer with a diverse background in computer-written music and electric or upright bass performance, Gary was first introduced to piano at age 8 and soon began composing. Through university music school, Gary performed in rock, metal, jazz, tejano and p/w groups as a bassist.

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Title: The Wives

Subtitle: The Women Behind Russias Literary Giants

Author: Alexandra Popoff

Narrator: Susan Finch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Muses and editors, saviors and publishers: Meet the women behind the greatest works of Russian literature

"Behind every good man is a good woman" is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between spouses is even that much more complex. F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence used their marriages for literary inspiration and material, sometime at the expense of their spouses' sanity. Thomas Carlyle wanted his wife to assist him, but Jane Carlyle became increasingly bitter and resentful in her new role, putting additional strain on their relationship.

In Russian literary marriages, however, the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time did not resent taking a "secondary position", although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history.

From Sophia Tolstoy to Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezdha Mandelstam, Anna Dostevsky, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, these women ranged from stenographers and typists to editors, researchers, translators, and even publishers. Living under restrictive regimes, many of these women battled censorship and preserved the writers' illicit archives, often risking their own lives to do so. They established a tradition all their own, unmatched in the West.

Many of these women were the writers' intellectual companions and made invaluable contributions to the creative process. And their husbands knew it. Leo Tolstoy made no secret of Sofia's involvement in War and Peace in his letters, and Vladimir Nabokov referred to Véra as his own "single shadow."

Editorial Reviews:

When Alexandra Popoff was growing up in Moscow with an author for a father and his dutiful assistant for a mother, she assumed that every male writer boasted such an amanuensis in his own wife. Russian culture favored literary spouses who also served as editors, typists, researchers, proofreaders, translators, and more, in addition to executing their domestic duties. In The Wives, Popoff examines the roles and biographies of the brilliant wives of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Osip Mandelstam, Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn. Susan Finch, who has been teaching speech for over two decades, brings a warm, scholarly, and well-calibrated performance to this rich material that rewrites the book on six literary giants.

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Title: Breakfast with Lucian

Author: Geordie Greig

Narrator: John Standing

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-13

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

For 10 years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke's restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud's private salon.

In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud's stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney; sleeping with horses; escaping the Krays; painting the Queen; his controversial role as a father; and why Velázquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies, and his love of gambling.

Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked. Those closest to him, after decades of silence and secrecy, have spoken frankly about what life was like living, loving or sitting for the greatest figurative portraitist of the twentieth century. Partly based on hours of taped conversations with the artist and his circle, and drawing on interviews with those who knew Freud intimately - including many girlfriends, models, dealers and bookmakers - Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait of the artist as a young and old man. It is a uniquely fascinating, personal and authoritative account of one of the greatest British painters of this century and the last, and a profile of a man who makes everyone else's life seem less lived.

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Titel: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Untertitel: Werkschau Bayreuth 2005

Autor:: Frank Piontek

Erzähler: Frank Piontek

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 6 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-13-13

Herausgeber: audiotransit

Kategorien: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

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Titolo: Intreccio di ciglia

Sottotitolo: Dialogo sulla poesia e sulla canzone

Autore: Elisa Biagini, Filippo Gatti

Narratore: Elisa Biagini, Filippo Gatti

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 4 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 06-18-13

Editore: GoodMood

Categoria: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Riepilogo Editore:

I dieci pezzi dellalbum sono preceduti da un dialogo che rende conto della genesi del progetto, del suo significato e della situazione della cultura musicale e poetica contemporanea.

Credits - Voci: Elisa Biagini e Filippo Gatti; Editing: Simone Giusti; Audio editing e sound design: Filippo Gatti e Tommaso Carosi; Progettor grafico: Fabio P. Corti, Filippo Gatti, Simone Giusti

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Title: The Beatles: The Authorised Biography

Author: Hunter Davies

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles, and this is it....

During 1967 and 1968, Hunter Davies spent 18 months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only-ever authorised biographer, he had unparalleled access - not just to John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but to friends, family, and colleagues. He collected a wealth of intimate and revealing material that makes this the classic Beatles book - the one all other biographers look to. Hunter Davies remained close with the band and as such has had access to more information over the years.

This 40th anniversary edition contains new material which has never been revealed before, from the author's archives and from the Beatles themselves, that will bring new insights to their legend.

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Titel: Wagner: Parsifal (Der Klassik(ver)führer Sonderband)

Autor:: Sven Friedrich

Erzähler: Wolfgang Schmidt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-23-13

Herausgeber: Auricula. Medienproduktions- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

Kategorien: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

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Interpreten: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dirigent: Marek Janowski, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Chorleiter: Simon Halsey. Amfortas: Evgeny Nikitin (Bariton), Titurel: Dimitry Ivashchenko (Bass), Gurnemanz: Franz-Josef Selig (Bass), Parsifal: Christian Elsner (Tenor), Klingsor: Eike Wilm Schulte (Bariton),Kundry: Michelle DeYoung (Mezzo-Sopran), Gralsritter: Clemens Bieber (Tenor),Tuomas Pursio (Bass), Knappen: Olivia Vermeulen (Sopran), Michael Smallwood (Tenor), Timothy Fallon (Tenor), Ulrike Schneider (Mezzo-Sopran), Blumenmädchen: Julia Borchert (Sopran), Martina Rüping (Sopran), Lani Poulson (Mezzo-Sopran), Sophia Klußmann (Sopran), Olivia Vermeulen (Sopran), Ulrike Schneider (Mezzo-Sopran), Stimme aus der Höhe: Michelle DeYoung (Mezzo-Sopran)

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Title: Soldier

Subtitle: A Poet's Childhood

Author: June Jordan

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

World-renowned poet and Professor of African American Studies at U.C., Berkeley, June Jordan writes a deeply personal memoir of her formative years. June recalls her childhood experiences and reveals the duality of her parents influence on her stellar achievement as a poet. The first 12 years in Harlem were both peaceful and tumultuous for June, as she was raised the daughter of dirt-poor West Indian immigrants. She was called "son" by her demanding and sometimes brutal father who made her rigorous education his primary concern. Junes quiet mother inspired her devotion to words and rhythm by reading Mother Goose nursery rhymes and associating specific words with parts of Junes body. Complemented by Robin Miles thoughtful narration, Junes memoir is interspersed with poetry that reflects the joy and pain of her daily experiences. Soldier is a beautiful and genuine portrait of a girl growing up in post-World War II Harlem.

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