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Title: The Story of Classical Music

Author: Darren Henley

Narrator: Aled Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the chanting of medieval monks through the symphonies of Beethoven and the grand operas of Wagner to the huge orchestral sound-world of the 21st century, with its electronics and its film music. In his easy-going style, Aled Jones paints vivid portraits of over 80 composers, each one illustrated with some of his, or her, most famous music. This all-encompassing introduction to classical music also includes a wealth of biographical and instrumental information on the CD-ROM element: put CD 4 into the computer and up will come pictures, articles, sheet music, quizzes and more, which will inform and fascinate the whole family.

Editorial Reviews:

This charming compilation is cheerfully hosted by the clear and friendly voice of Marin Alsop, who walks young (and curious adult) listeners through an engaging history of classical music. Alsop's commentary leads and follows ear-pleasing segments of great classical music, briskly recorded masterworks punctuating short biographies and observations. The language is clear and chatty. A wonderful way to learn about the great names and histories of the world's great composers and musical movements.

Members Reviews:

history of music

Would you consider the audio edition of The Story of Classical Music to be better than the print version?

great way to understand how music has developed. Aled is easy to listen to and the music inserts are fun.

Brilliant! Great for adults and children alike

Covering some 1500 years of music in just over 4 hours is an ambitious feat, but this overview of classical music is a fun narrative that captivates to the end! Young listeners will be introduced to significant composers and the broad changes in style over time, while older listeners will appreciate having familiar works and composers put in their historical context.

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Title: Blues

Subtitle: The Arts

Author: iMinds

Narrator: Ellouise Rothwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-09

Publisher: iMinds

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Learn about Blues Music with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Blues music is a type of African-American folk music. It is concerned with expressing emotions through song. Generally, blues songs deal with tragic themes such as lost love, hardship, poverty, and death. Indeed, the name "blues" comes from the emotions expressed in the songs themselves! However, blues songs are presented in a way to make audiences feel better about their own situation in life. This is because they encourage listeners to take control of their lives and move past any hardship. Due to this, blues music is very effective at connecting with its audience. This is best proved by Lead Belly, a famous US musician who was released from jail in 1925 due to his ability to sing the blues!

The distinct vocal style that characterizes the blues stems from southern work songs. These work songs were sung by plantation slaves in the south of the United States of America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing.

iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future.

Critic Reviews:

"I'm learning all sorts of stuff about stuff I didn't even know I didn't know. And it sticks. In a nutshell: wonderful." (Jonathon Margolis, Financial Times)

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Title: U2

Subtitle: The Alan Cross Guide

Author: Alan Cross

Narrator: Alan Cross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In this new audiobook, broadcaster and music writer Alan Cross narrates the definitive history of U2. Cross succeeds once again in revealing the fascinating history behind the music in the same compelling way we've come to expect from his long broadcasting career.

Rock on: listen to another

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©2009 Alan Cross; (P)2009 HarperCollins Canada

Editorial Reviews:

Beyond just the music, U2 is an industry, generating billions of dollars, investing in art and real estate in Dublin, employing hundreds of people, and influencing the action of governments through activism and political advocacy. Alan Cross' audio guide takes listeners through all of it, from their start as Dublin teenagers attending the same school, to the production of their 13th studio album. One of the biggest, most influential, and most important rock bands of all time, U2's story should not be missed. Cross offers it up succinctly to listeners with wit and clarity.

Members Reviews:

Interesting article about U2

I really enjoyed listening to this. It was fun & informative. Recommended to U2 fans.

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Title: Discover: Music of the Romantic Era

Author: David McCleery

Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-09

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

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 those turbulent but exhilarating times with 40 music excerpts. Light-hearted but authoritative, it tells the fascinating, often scandalous life stories of the 19th century's greatest composers and describes how they created musical history.

Editorial Reviews:

For some of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and most of the nineteenth, "romantic" music dominated the concert halls of Europe and America. Ever expanding the scope of musical grammar, it sought to express deeply felt emotional states, tell rousing stories, and evoke beautiful pictures. The works of its composers remain among the most universally enjoyed in the classical repertoire. While Naxos's critical history of the era is cursory, on the plus side, the recording contains spirited musical illustrations. Critical analyses of individual compositions are clearly stated and illuminating. Narrator Jeremy Siepmann has a pleasant, mature British sound. He employs it in a documentary style that is placid but never dull.

Members Reviews:

Well done volume

Good succinct chapters on the composers and the Romantic era in music. It is a helpful small volume with good examples of composers and their works and a good summary of the basis of romantic music.

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Title: The Alan Cross Guide To Alternative Rock Vol. 4

Author: Alan Cross

Narrator: Alan Cross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In the final installment of The Alan Cross Guide to Alternative Rock, Cross enters the new millennium. Volume 4 chronicles the influence of today's biggest bands, providing complete biographies, trivia and discographies for Coldplay, The Killers, The White Stripes, Linkin Park, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day and Oasis.

©2008 Alan Cross; (P)2008 HarperCollins Canada

Editorial Reviews:

Alan Cross has been a disc jockey for over 30 years and has the confident and cool voice to prove it. Some years ago, he embarked on a writing project intended to trace the roots and development of "alternative rock". His project took him up through seminal 90s acts like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Now, he has added a volume to bring his collection more up to date. Volume four focuses on newer bands like the White Stripes and the Killers and how they are "sending ripples" through the industry.

As Cross acknowledges in his introduction, how formative these newer bands will end up being is an open question. Whats not an open question is that Cross knowledge and speculation are great fun in and of themselves.

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Title: The Alan Cross Guide to Alternative Rock Vol. 3

Author: Alan Cross

Narrator: Alan Cross

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Continuing his definitive history of alternative rock, respected music journalist Alan Cross explores the artists who revolutionized music in the 1990s. In Volume 3, Cross tells the stories of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Beastie Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and others.

©2008 Alan Cross; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

Editorial Reviews:

Alan Cross has been a disc jockey for over 30 years and has the pleasantly serene, confident, and cool voice to prove it. Some years ago, he embarked on a writing project intended to trace the roots and development of "alternative rock", a sometimes misleading term, as Cross acknowledges.

Cross began his history with 60s alternative icons like the Velvet Underground, went up through the 1980s with New Order and others, and continues here in Volume 3 with a deep dive into the 90s. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and others are placed in their context and given a thorough treatment. One highlight of this recording is Crosss musings not only on the music, but on the shifty process of history itself.

Members Reviews:

Behind the Alternative Music

Alan Cross does a wonderfull job at explaining why you should want to know the stories contained in the 3 volumes of this series. I found myself listening to several stories again as well as playing them for friends.

This book series is a must for anyone who loves alternative music.

Awesome

This title is just awesome, not just point of view, but History. You'll learn, and you'll love it. Very well written, produced and a must for all us music lovers. (Specially us, Alt Rock Genration)

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Titre: Piaf, mon amie

Auteur: Ginou Richer

Narrateur: Selena Hernandez

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-25-08

Éditeur: Livrior

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Paris, au sortir de la guerre: une jeune fille de seize ans se balade sur les Champs-Elysées. L'un des Compagnons de la Chanson, qui à l'époque accompagnent Piaf, l'aperçoit et tombe sous le charme de ses yeux verts. Bientôt l'adolescente rencontre la grande chanteuse -et une belle amitié voit le jour. Ginou sera tout simplement sa "meilleure amie", comme Edith le lui écrit au dos d'une photo. Pendant quinze ans, elle vivra son quotidien, ses amis et ses amours, ses douleurs et ses drames. Personne n'aura vécu aussi longtemps sous le même toit que Piaf. Personne ne l'aura mieux comprise, sans jamais la juger.

La narratrice

Tour à tour comédienne, actrice danseuse et performeuse artistique,

prête sa voix attachante et espiègle à ce livre audio. Une grande réussite!

© Livrior 2007

(P) Editions Denoël 2007

Avis des membres:

Excellent Companion To "La Vie En Rose" With Marion Cotillard

I bought this book because I was fascinated with the Marion Cotillard film of Edith Piaf and also because I could use it to gain more experience with reading and speaking French.

It has a good photo section and is a very personal picture of the French singer as seen through the eyes of a close confidante.

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Title: Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3 Series)

Author: Kim Cooper

Narrator: Donna Coney Island

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Kim Cooper is the editrix of Scram - a journal of unpopular culture. She is also the co-editor of the acclaimed books Lost in the Grooves and Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. She lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews:

With its multi-layered low-fi sensibility, Neutral Milk Hotel's 1994 album rolls from meek melancholy melodies to joyous triumphant swells, creating an enigmatic indie classic whose fans hold it close to their hearts. Music writer Kim Cooper, herself a fan, puts some context to the mystery, describing the collaborative environment from which the album emerged and the reasons for bandleader Jeff Magnum's sudden decision to take a hiatus from music following the albums successes. Donna Coney Island's emphatic performance of the audiobook engages the listener, painting a living picture of the friends and musicians who created the album while treating it seriously, as a significant moment in time. Fans of the album and the newly initiated will delight in this loving aural portrait.

Critic Reviews:

"Exhaustively researched and warmly narrated, Kim Cooper's Cinderella story of the 1997 Neutral Milk Hotel album that has sold upward of 150,000 copies primarily through word of mouth and caused its primary creator to withdraw from the public-eye functions as an indie-rock doctrine. Tracing the evolution of the band's main participants back to their childhoods and following their paths through the culmination of their final tour, she debunks myths and humanizes developments along the way" (The Chicago Tribune)

Members Reviews:

Great book, terrible narration.

How exactly does a 4-star book become a 2-star audiobook?

Kim Cooper's fascinating and insightful look into Neutral Milk Hotel's magnum opus, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," paints a thrilling portrait of the creation of one of indie rock's crowning masterpieces. Unfortunately, Donna Coney Island's soulless narration drones on with the delivery of a grab-bag pick from the pool of corporate "on-hold" recording talent. I halfway expected an AT&T customer service rep to interrupt, and rescue me from the tedium of her "always smiling" presentation.

Awesome!

Great stuff. Their story is so interesting. Author/Narrator calls Keith RIchards Keith Richard, and Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire. Ohhhh wellllll. Fun listen!

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Title: The Alan Cross Guide to Alternative Rock, Volume 1

Author: Alan Cross

Narrator: Alan Cross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Respected broadcaster Alan Cross narrates the definitive history of alternative rock over the last 30 years. He recounts the stories of David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and Iggy Pop.

Listen to

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©2007 Alan Cross; (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

Editorial Reviews:

This first entry in music journalist Alan Cross expansive guide to alternative rock focuses on the genres forerunners - musicians of the '60s and '70s, both famous and obscure, who influenced contemporary indie acts. Cross profiles pop musics most influential artists - including the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, David Bowie, The Ramones, and The Clash - according each of his subjects' scholarly attention to detail without failing to capture the excitement and allure of rocks counterculture. Performing his own work, Cross vast experience in broadcasting is evident. Like any good journalist, Cross is relentlessly inquisitive, while nevertheless focused and objective. Presenting a broader view of alternative history, Cross examines the influence of his formative pioneers on the more recent successes of R.E.M, Nirvana, and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Members Reviews:

Behind the Alternative Music

Alan Cross does a wonderfull job at explaining why you should want to know the stories contained in the 3 volumes of this series. I found myself listening to several stories again as well as playing them for friends.

This book series is a must for anyone who loves alternative music.

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Title: Enjoying Italian Opera with Dale Harris

Author: Dale Harris

Narrator: Dale Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-08

Publisher: Designs for Learning

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

New opera enthusiasts and seasoned aficionados alike will delight in Dale Harris' witty and insightful analyses of The Barber of Seville, Madame Butterfly, Aida, and Lucia de Lammermoor. The notable music critic, whose lectures at the Metropolitan used to be sell-out events, examines these operas in terms of libretto, plot, music, performance history, and cultural background, amply illustrated with musical examples.

©1995 Learning Designs; (P)1995 Learning Designs