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Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Have you ever wondered how the lives of great composers-especially when set against the social, political, and cultural context of their world-influences their music?After listening to this perceptive series of eight lectures on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, you will likely find that you hear his work in an entirely different way, your insight informed by new knowledge of how Beethoven was able to create masterpieces from the crises of his life.You'll learn about the years of progressive hearing loss-ultimately to produce total deafness-and the understandable agony and rage such a fate would bring upon a composer. About his deep depression over the end of his relationship with the woman he calls his Immortal Beloved. About his pathological hatred of authority, his persecution complex, even delusional behaviors.But you'll also learn how each of these crises, and many others, served to drive Beethoven inward, to reinvent himself and redeem his suffering through art, creating disruptive works of profound passion and beauty that reinvented the nature of musical expression in the Western world.
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The most annoying speaker I have ever heard
- By hfffoman on 29-03-17
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Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Music of Richard Wagner
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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In these 24 lectures filled with musical excerpts, enjoy a rich and multifaceted exploration of the trailblazing works and outsized life of this historically pivotal composer. The sheer outlandishness of Wagner's life makes for an endlessly intriguing story, from his desperate escapades outrunning creditors to his obsessive personal relationships to his utopian artistic schemes.
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Wagner, the man and the mythos
- By Mr on 31-01-14
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The Music of Richard Wagner
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Storytelling and the Human Condition
- By: Alexandra Hudson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Alexandra Hudson
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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To examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our implicit desire to understand our lives and our place in the world, you will go on a globe-spanning, time-travelling, media-traversing tour in the 12 lectures of Storytelling and the Human Condition. Your guide is award-winning journalist, author, and storyteller Alexandra Hudson, founder of Civic Renaissance, a community of lifelong learners, which she invites you to join at Civic-Renaissance.com. In this course, she will illuminate the many ways stories shape our lives throughout history and across cultures.
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Storytelling and the Human Condition
- Narrated by: Alexandra Hudson
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-02-23
- Language: English
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A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
- By: Gregory S. Aldrete, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Gregory S. Aldrete
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python’s Life of Brian created our popular perceptions of ancient Roman history? In what ways have they led us astray? And why, despite the occasional box-office flop, do movies set in ancient Rome still have the power to captivate us, and to turn each of us into theater-going history buffs? In these 12 lectures, an award-winning historian gives you a front-row look at the great movies that have shaped ancient Rome’s role in popular culture and memory.
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Perfunctory look at the Epic Movies of the fifties/sixty’s
- By Sandor on 29-11-22
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A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Gregory S. Aldrete
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Almost from the moment it was first set to paper, the music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - technically superb, rich in quality, and widely imitated - has exemplified the Classical style, creating not only the Classical-era symphony but setting the standard, through his own 68 string quartets, against which that form has ever after been judged. And yet Haydn, despite the influence left by more than 1000 works, seems to no longer get his due, Now, in a series of eight vivid lectures, you can learn to understand and appreciate the music of one of the most original and influential composers of all time.
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To the point
- By Rob Sedgwick on 02-01-21
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Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The String Quartets of Beethoven
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
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In this musically rich 24-lecture series, Professor Greenberg guides you in a deep encounter with these majestic works of art, offering you the rare opportunity to grasp the musical riches and spiritual greatness of the quartets in a clear and accessible way. Each of these lectures is a rare and life-enriching opportunity to know the scope of Beethoven's genius, his most unforgettable music, and the profound humanity and beauty that live through them.
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Addictive and Annoying!
- By LIZ G. on 30-12-18
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The String Quartets of Beethoven
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Great Masters: Brahms-His Life and Music
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Johannes Brahms was a man of contrasts. His serious Teutonic music was balanced by joyful dance music. His kindness to working people with a biting, malicious wit reserved for those he encountered in artistic and aristocratic circles. Yet you can know this enigmatic genius though this 8-lecture series, which uses biographical information and musical commentary to link the complexities of Brahms the man with the electrifying music of Brahms the composer.
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Greenberg does it again
- By D. Frydman on 26-04-24
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Great Masters: Brahms-His Life and Music
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Chamber Music of Mozart
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Nowhere is Mozart's maturity and mastery more apparent than in the chamber music he wrote during the last 10 years of his life. These 16 lectures take you deep inside the structure of Mozart's chamber masterworks to reveal his hand at work. This is an amazing opportunity to hear, study, and enjoy a selection of immortal musical compositions that Professor Greenberg calls "a blessing of inconceivable richness". You will learn the basic "language" that all 18th-century composers used to write Classical music. You'll also explore the subtleties of Mozart's technique as a composer: his ability to make art "artless".
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Fabulous
- By Jane on 04-09-22
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The Chamber Music of Mozart
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Symphony
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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From its humble beginnings in the 17th-century Along the way, it has embraced nearly every trend to be found in Western concert music.In this series of twenty-four 45-minute lectures, Professor Greenberg guides you on a survey of the symphony.
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Great overview of the history of the symphony
- By Chris on 03-09-15
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The Symphony
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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In all the annals of Western music, there has never been a couple like the Schumanns: he a pioneering critic and composer (the only ever to achieve greatness as both), she one of the leading concert pianists of Europe, as well as a composer of no small talent herself. This series of eight lectures by an award-winning composer and acclaimed teacher includes excerpts of works by both of the Schumanns as part of an introduction to an extraordinary couple and the musical legacy left to us in spite of the difficulties that dogged their marriage.
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the accompanying PDF is the best thing.
- By Mahmood on 15-10-20
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Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Great Masters: Liszt - His Life and Music
- By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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More than anyone before him-more than Beethoven, Byron, even the preternatural Paganini-it was Franz Liszt who created one of the most enduring archetypes of the Romantic era: that of the artist "who walks with God and brings down fire from heaven in order to kindle the hearts of humankind." An innovative composer both for his own instrument and on an orchestral scale, Liszt was without a doubt the greatest pianist of his time and perhaps the greatest of all time, stunning even the most jaded critics and listeners everywhere he went with his sheer virtuosity and almost unbelievable musical gifts-even while playing whatever instrument was available in whatever hall he could find during his arduous travels by mail coach throughout Europe. Yet even though his fame and achievement make him one of the most written about composers of the 19th century, musically he remains the least understood. And as for his life, perhaps a good place to begin is with Felix Mendelssohn's observation that Liszt's character was "a continual alternation between scandal and apotheosis." Still-for every lover of music, Liszt remains someone you must understand, and this 8-lecture series is an ideal place to begin your acquaintance with both the man and his music.
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RECOMMENDED.
- By Mahmood on 26-10-20
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Great Masters: Liszt - His Life and Music
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of the Beatles
- By: Michael Shelden, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Shelden
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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How did four young men from a faded old seaport in Northern England lead such an epic musical and cultural revolution? Why could the story of the Beatles only have happened in such a charged decade? What remains to be said about this British band that hasn’t been said before? Questions like these lie at the beating heart of these 12 lessons that offer a fresh look at how this celebrated band became one of the most compelling voices against the status quo.
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England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of the Beatles
- Narrated by: Michael Shelden
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-11-20
- Language: English
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The Power of Storytelling with Ari Shapiro
- By: Ari Shapiro, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ari Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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As an award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered, Ari Shapiro knows the power of storytelling better than most. And the longer he’s worked in the field, the more convinced he’s become of storytelling’s primal importance. In 12 fascinating lessons, this master of the craft reveals the storytelling secrets he’s learned over the course of his career as a reporter and performer, from finding a good story and choosing the right characters to conducting interviews and even delivering a story effectively out loud.
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The Power of Storytelling with Ari Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ari Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-11-23
- Language: English
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America’s Musical Heritage
- By: Anthony Seeger, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Anthony Seeger
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Professor Seeger reveals the origins of the American music industry; the impact of instruments like the piano and the banjo; and the myriad ways music has shaped American wars, dances, elections, and public demonstrations. You’ll learn the secret histories of songs, including “The President’s March”, “Amazing Grace”, and “We Shall Overcome”, You’ll also hear informative interviews and eclectic performances from scholar-musicians, and sample original recordings that reflect the incredible richness of the American musical experience.
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So nice to listen to.
- By Anonymous User on 07-08-20
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America’s Musical Heritage
- Narrated by: Professor Anthony Seeger
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-11-19
- Language: English
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