Classical Memoirs

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    • Auteur(s): Marcus Aurelius
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Munro
    • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-07-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 évaluations
    • Meditations is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....

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    • The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
    • Auteur(s): Charles King
    • Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
    • Durée: 10 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King comes the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah.

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    • The March of the Ten Thousand, or Anabasis
    • Auteur(s): Xenophon
    • Narrateur(s): David Timson
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Seeking to depose his brother Artaxerxes and take his place upon the Persian throne, Cyrus the Younger leads the 10,000 mercenaries on a dangerous campaign deep into the heart of Persia....

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    • A Life and Times
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Alan Walker
    • Narrateur(s): Corrie James
    • Durée: 23 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., this is a landmark biography of the Polish composer by Alan Walker, a leading authority on Fryderyk Chopin and his time....

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    • How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Rosen
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
    • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.

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    • Seneca at the Court of Nero
    • Auteur(s): James S. Romm
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman....

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    • A Love Story, in Music Lessons
    • Auteur(s): Jeremy Denk
    • Narrateur(s): Jeremy Denk
    • Durée: 13 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico....

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    • A Personal Guide
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 20 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

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    • 1599
    • Auteur(s): James Shapiro
    • Narrateur(s): James Shapiro
    • Durée: 6 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright....

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    • The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
    • Auteur(s): John Mauceri
    • Narrateur(s): John Mauceri
    • Durée: 9 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....

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    • Auteur(s): Pliny
    • Narrateur(s): Russell Bentley, Ben Onwukwe
    • Durée: 14 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own public and private interests....

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    • The Composer and His Work
    • Auteur(s): Christoph Wolff
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 13 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....

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    • Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
    • Auteur(s): Blair Tindall
    • Narrateur(s): Amanda Ronconi
    • Durée: 12 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Mozart in the Jungle delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music....

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    • Auteur(s): Fred Plotkin
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Plotkin
    • Durée: 19 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers....

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    • Why He Matters
    • Auteur(s): Harvey Sachs
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 8 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Arnold Schoenberg from notoriety, Schoenberg restores him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers....

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    • A Balanchine Story
    • Auteur(s): Toni Bentley
    • Narrateur(s): Leslie Howard, Toni Bentley
    • Durée: 10 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From both backstage and onstage, she carries us through the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade....

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    • An Improvisation on Indian Music
    • Auteur(s): Amit Chaudhuri
    • Narrateur(s): Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Durée: 5 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world....

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