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Mussorgsky in Words and Music
- Great Composers in Word and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The Great Gate of Kiev resounds to the tumultuous bell rings that end Pictures an an Exhibition, one of the most magnificent and virtuosic of all piano pieces. However, to some of his contemporaries, Modest Mussorgsky was ‘insane’ and ‘a perfect idiot’. Born into a wealthy land-owning family, what drove this tormented man and why did he suffer psychological breakdowns and alcoholism? How did he achieve his command of the realist idiom in his stage works? d, of course, Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Mussorgsky in Words and Music
- Great Composers in Word and Music
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-11-23
- Language: English
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L'elisir d'amore
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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L’elisir d’amore, or The Elixir of Love, has remained popular for almost two centuries because of a touching tale and a galaxy of comic characters adapted from the traditional commedia dell’ arte. Above all Donizetti poured into the score all the warmth and tenderness of the Italian temperament.
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L'elisir d'amore
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Fidelio
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Fidelio is a work like no other. Beethoven’s only opera is about the joy of married love - by a man who never knew that pleasure. It is about heroism by a man who was often mean and petty in his human relations; it is about freedom by a man who was a prisoner of his own deafness; and ultimately it is about joy by a man who experienced precious little of it.
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Fidelio
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Tancredi
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Rossini’s comic operas, like The Barber of Seville, are better known than his tragedies though he wrote in fact many more tragedies than comedies. One of them, his last, William Tell, is actually credited with launching the whole age of Grand Opéra. Tancredi is an early work - indeed his first smash hit - and it established his international fame.
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Tancredi
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Beethoven in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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When we think of Ludwig van Beethoven images of a stormy and passionate but tortured genius are brought to mind, alongside the transformative effect of his work on musical history. All of these things are true, but no artist lives in a vacuum, and even music that opens a portal onto 'the infinite realm of the spirit' has its wider context.
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Beethoven in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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Werther
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Massenet’s Werther combines a deeply tender story with music of beauty and eloquence. One act alone contains two of the greatest arias in the repertoire: the mezzo-soprano aria "Va! Laisse couler mes larmes" and the tenor’s "Pourquoi me rèveiller". In their sentimental power and melodic richness these arias encapsulate the qualities that account for the universal popularity of this great work.
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Werther
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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The Life and Works of Liszt
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Neville Jason
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Liszt's life was as daring and spectacular as his music. Famed throughout Europe as the greatest pianist of the 19th century, Liszt 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 of the town wherever he went and his generosity to young musicians was legendary. In this account of his epic life, actors’ readings combine with plentiful musical excerpts to paint a living portrait of a highly complex man.
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The Life and Works of Liszt
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Neville Jason
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-03-11
- Language: English
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Mozart in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Tchaikovsky declared that Mozart was 'full of divine beauty', and Schubert's wonder at the 'countless images of a brighter and better world' that Mozart was able to conjure up through his music knew no bounds. Many of us carry the image of Mozart as a transcendent genius, but what do we really know about his life and career, and indeed his music? This entertaining and informative biography takes us from Mozart's beginnings as a child prodigy to his greatest successes and cruellest setbacks.
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Mozart in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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