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Tchaikovsky in Words and Music
- By: Davinia Caddy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Is there any music more instantly recognizable and beautifully scored than Tchaikovsky’s wildly popular ballet Swan Lake? These and other works have become enduring classics, yet they were not uncontroversial in Tchaikovsky’s day, and there are those that still wonder if his style is fundamentally European or ardently Russian. Find out more about Tchaikovsky’s childhood obsession with music, his turbulent relationships with friends and colleagues, and how he overcame the deepest of personal crises to transcend all with an ambition that has left us with some of the greatest music ever written.
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Tchaikovsky in Words and Music
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-05-23
- Language: English
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Pagliacci may be the most completely compelling short opera in the repertory and owes much of its impact to a brilliant story based, it is said, on true life and told through the device of a play-within-a-play. The action is set in Calabria in the deep south of Italy where the jealousies and illicit passions of a troupe of strolling actors precisely intersect with the play they are performing - to both touching and tragic effect.
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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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 this tale, whose appeal to composers is obvious; yet the abiding strength lies in the power and majesty of his inspiration, whether in the solos, the choruses, or the ballet music.
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Orfeo ed Euridice
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- By: David McCleery
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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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.
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-03-09
- Language: English
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Tosca
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Tosca is Puccini at the peak of his theatrical power. The story of the jealous, impassioned opera singer Floria Tosca and her doomed love for the painter Mario Cavaradossi is played out against backgrounds both historically and geographically overwhelming. It is set in three great and historical locations of Rome during the Napoleonic era. Spectacle, sensuality, and cruelty battle for our attention in one of the most truly "action-packed" works of theatre. Enticing us with just a couple of the "great tunes" from this deeply affecting opera, David Timson then begins setting the biographical and operatic scene.
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Tosca
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Verdi: Aida
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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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 of Egypt to inaugurate the new opera house in Cairo. Aida generally is considered one of the most spectacular of Verdi’s operas.
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An excellent intro to Aida
- By Olga on 07-06-19
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Verdi: Aida
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Discover: Music of the Baroque Era
- By: Clive Unger-Hamilton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel are the three great composers of the Baroque era, though there are many other well-known figures, including Albinoni, Pachelbel, and Scarlatti. This engaging introduction, interspersed liberally with music, shows how the works of these composers graced the courts and churches of Europe from 1600 to 1750. It is a fascinating story.
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Good introduction
- By Christine on 29-11-11
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Discover: Music of the Baroque Era
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-08-11
- Language: English
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La Traviata
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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La Traviata owes its enduring popularity to a superb story of young love and fatal sacrifice, set to music by Italy’s master melodist at the peak of his powers. Interest and poignancy are added by the fact that this is a true story - the baritone ‘heavy’ is Alexander Dumas who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo. But it is the central figure, the heroine Violetta, the archetypal ‘whore with the heart of gold’ who dominates the piece. It is her opera and we love her for it.
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La Traviata
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Joseph Haydn
- His Life and Works
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Symphonies, quartets, concertos and keyboard works poured from the pen of Joseph Haydn, making him one of the most important figures in classical music. Jeremy Siepmann tells the story of the man and his work in this lively autobiography, enhanced by numerous examples of the music itself, taken from the Naxos catalogue. There is no better programme with which to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
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A very nice introduction to Papa Haydn
- By Kasper Hemmer Pihl on 30-06-13
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Joseph Haydn
- His Life and Works
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-03-09
- Language: English
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Verdi: Rigoletto
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Rigoletto is simply wonderful entertainment with superb music. It is also much more - a daring (for its time) attack on aristocratic privilege, a tender love story, and an impassioned appeal on behalf of the disadvantaged, all set to music of such wealth and beauty that, with its sister operas La traviata and Il trovatore, it has defined Italian opera for 150 years. Overcoming initial trouble with the censors, Verdi's Rigoletto was a smash hit at its premiere and has not been out of the repertoire since. It’s not hard to see why.
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Verdi: Rigoletto
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Life & Works - Giuseppe Verdi
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Freddie Jones, Elaine Claxton, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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With the possible exception of Mozart, Verdi is the most popular opera composer who ever lived. Quite early in his career his tunes were being cranked out by barrel organs throughout Europe and were well known to many who may never even have heard his name. But the complex man behind them remains elusive and puzzling. In this portrait-in-sound, Jeremy Siepmann and a group of distinguished actors take an in-depth look behind the popular image of a man who was, and perhaps remains, the most enduring national hero in Italian history and a colossus in the history of music itself.
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Life & Works - Giuseppe Verdi
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Freddie Jones, Elaine Claxton, David Timson, Steve Hodson, Charlie Simpson
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-11-12
- Language: English
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Cathedrals: In a Nutshell
- By: Jonathan Gregson
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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For almost two millennia, cathedrals have been among the most imposing, astonishing and inspiring buildings in Europe. Regardless of faith, their scale and architectural daring has never ceased to spark wonder. This guide traces the development of the cathedral from its earliest beginnings as a Bishop’s house, through the Romanesque and Gothic periods and up to the most extravagant contemporary designs around the world.
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Cathedrals: In a Nutshell
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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Pelleas et Melisande
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Dating from the last decade of the 19th century, Pelléas et Mélisande points the way into the 20th century. The score is hauntingly beautiful, but there is more to the work than shifting panels of elusive, impressionistic sound. Debussy retains the text of Maeterlinck’s play, and the linguistic subtleties of the French text are matched perfectly by the musical detail. Taking a little time to explore the romantic, elusive world of this opera is particularly rewarding.
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Pelleas et Melisande
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Orfeo: Opera Explained
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Monteverdi’s Orfeo, first performed in 1607, generates a special excitement because it is the first unquestioned masterpiece of opera. Notable for its precise orchestration and powerful drama it was a groundbreaking work. It concerns the legend of Orpheus, the demigod whose music had the power to conquer the forces of Hell and to bring his wife back, briefly, to life. The extracts used in this introduction are from Naxos’ full recording; it uses authentic period instruments, which serve to evoke the early Baroque period of the opera’s composition.
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Orfeo: Opera Explained
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Introducing Postmodernism
- By: Richard Appignanesi
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly "contemporary" culture, a virtual world of "hyperreality" containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama's proclaimed "end of history".
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Brilliant!
- By Duncan on 01-12-06
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Don Giovanni
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Don Giovanni has long been regarded as Mozart’s supreme theatrical achievement. The subject seems unpromising - the last day in the life of the notorious womanizer Don Juan - but the skill of the librettist allied to the genius of Mozart at the very peak of his powers has created a work which is not only highly entertaining but reflects an incredible understanding of the human condition.
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Don Giovanni
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Verdi: Falstaff
- By: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career - distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces - with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the 80-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime.
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Verdi: Falstaff
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 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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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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The Phantom of the Opera
- By: Gastón Leroux
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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This 19th century French thriller tells of the mysterious Erik, grotesque and elusive "phantom," who hides himself from the world in the labyrinthine bowels of the Paris Opera and entices with his angelic voice the beautiful opera singer Christine. Her abduction prompts a dramatic search not only for her, but also for the truth about her strange captor.
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The Phantom of the Opera
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-12-99
- Language: English
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