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The Demon Next Door
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: Steve White
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
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Odd narration choice
- De Amanda Fredericks en 03-08-19
De: Bryan Burrough
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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Going Infinite
- The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking listeners into the mind of Bankman-Fried.
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really expected more rigor from Michael Lewis
- De Wowhello en 10-04-23
De: Michael Lewis
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Audible Masterpiece
- De Phoenician en 09-10-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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Drinking
- A Love Story
- De: Caroline Knapp
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
- De Karen K en 07-26-16
De: Caroline Knapp
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Mozart
- The Reign of Love
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 30 h y 22 m
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Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: A man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.
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Comprehensive Bio
- De Judy en 01-07-21
De: Jan Swafford
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Language of the Spirit
- An Introduction to Classical Music
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces listeners to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.
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Great intro to various important composers & works
- De Jay G en 06-14-18
De: Jan Swafford
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Mozart
- A Life
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships.
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For a book about Mozart, not much Mozart.
- De LZ en 04-15-15
De: Paul Johnson
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Van Gogh
- The Life
- De: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 44 h y 55 m
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Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials. While drawing liberally from the artist's famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family correspondences, illuminating with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul. Naifeh and Smith bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist.
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Empathy for a True Artist
- De Sojourning Hope en 05-04-21
De: Steven Naifeh, y otros
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- De: Laura Tunbridge
- Narrado por: Laura Tunbridge
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven's career, placing his music in contexts that shed light on why particular pieces are valued more than others, and what this tells us about his larger-than-life reputation.
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Engaging, interesting, nice format
- De George en 07-04-22
De: Laura Tunbridge
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Mozart
- The Reign of Love
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 30 h y 22 m
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Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: A man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.
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Comprehensive Bio
- De Judy en 01-07-21
De: Jan Swafford
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Language of the Spirit
- An Introduction to Classical Music
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces listeners to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.
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Great intro to various important composers & works
- De Jay G en 06-14-18
De: Jan Swafford
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Mozart
- A Life
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships.
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For a book about Mozart, not much Mozart.
- De LZ en 04-15-15
De: Paul Johnson
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Van Gogh
- The Life
- De: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 44 h y 55 m
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Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials. While drawing liberally from the artist's famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family correspondences, illuminating with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul. Naifeh and Smith bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist.
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Empathy for a True Artist
- De Sojourning Hope en 05-04-21
De: Steven Naifeh, y otros
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- De: Laura Tunbridge
- Narrado por: Laura Tunbridge
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven's career, placing his music in contexts that shed light on why particular pieces are valued more than others, and what this tells us about his larger-than-life reputation.
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- De George en 07-04-22
De: Laura Tunbridge
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
De: Christoph Wolff
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- De: John Eliot Gardiner
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it.
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- De David Steinsaltz en 03-22-15
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Fryderyk Chopin
- A Life and Times
- De: Dr. Alan Walker
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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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., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
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This book is a masterpiece
- De Carpe Diem en 02-09-19
De: Dr. Alan Walker
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The Cello Suites
- J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
- De: Eric Siblin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the 18th century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-19th century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day.
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Bach Stories with Brilliance
- De RFC en 03-13-24
De: Eric Siblin
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- De: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrado por: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos, and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, to his death at the age of 39 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently. We think of Chopin as a "frail, sheltered genius" but this forthright portrait demonstrates he was far more boisterous than that.
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Frederic Chopin
- De Mary Hawthorne en 03-24-17
De: Jeremy Siepmann
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The Life & Times of Beethoven
- The First Angry Man
- De: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Robert Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since. Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape.
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WHAT no music????
- De THS en 11-12-19
De: Robert Greenberg, y otros
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- De: John Clubbe
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
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Children of the Night
- The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
- De: Paul Kenyon
- Narrado por: Paul Kenyon
- Duración: 19 h y 38 m
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The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider. But this beautiful and unexplored land has experienced some of the most disastrous leaderships of the last century. After a relatively benign period led by a dutiful king and his vivacious, British-born queen, the country oscillated wildly.
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A haunting look at Romanian history
- De Steve Adams en 07-19-24
De: Paul Kenyon
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The Rise of American Democracy
- Jefferson to Lincoln
- De: Sean Wilentz
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 39 h y 40 m
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In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves, and a host of others hewed their own local definitions.
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If you need to sleep...
- De HueDCypher39 en 08-04-20
De: Sean Wilentz
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The City-State of Boston
- The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
- De: Mark Peterson
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 26 h y 15 m
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In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a path-breaking and brilliant new history of early America.
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Extremely Interesting
- De Abbi en 05-02-23
De: Mark Peterson
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Dear Theo
- The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh
- De: Irving Stone, Jean Stone
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 21 h y 17 m
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Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Gogh’s letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art.
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Worst narrator ever!
- De Aawendel en 03-28-14
De: Irving Stone, y otros
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Somewhere Out There
- My Animated Life
- De: Don Bluth
- Narrado por: Don Bluth
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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A matinee of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs awakened something within Don Bluth. Despite growing up in rural Texas and Utah, he practiced and worked hard to become a Hollywood animator. And after working alongside his idol Walt Disney, and on films including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winne the Pooh, The Rescuers, and Pete's Dragon, he realized that the company had changed into something he didn't necessarily believe in. So he made the industry-shocking decision to start his own animation studio.
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Both a Must Have AND a Disappointment… Still 5 Stars
- De Johnathan Robinson en 08-24-22
De: Don Bluth
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- Hans Rigelman
- 12-15-16
Beethoven - the man and his music
This is a sad story, but also encouraging as you see how Beethoven struggled through his many physical ailments, tortured by his unrequited loves, but yet wrote some of the most beautiful and passionate music ever heard at his time.
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- 02-21-17
A good listen for the first 4/5 of the book.
Where does Beethoven rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top 30%
What was one of the most memorable moments of Beethoven?
His upbring with a an abusive alcoholic father, his musical genius and persistence in getting every note and cord perfect, sometimes taking him weeks to accomplish.
What does Michael Prichard bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Making what could be a tedious read a good listen.
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- Barry Katz
- 04-02-19
Great book. Terrible narration.
Very poor choice of reader for this book. The voice and affect of the performer are really spoiling it for me. Much as I want to read this, I'm not sure I can take 39 hours of this narrator's voice.
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- Curt
- 12-09-15
Enjoyable, engrossing.
Would you consider the audio edition of Beethoven to be better than the print version?
This is a wonderfully in depth examination of Beethoven's life and his times. My only complaint is the occasional mispronunciation.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Although impossible, yes.
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- Jonathan R. Zeko
- 03-08-16
Wonderful Biography of A Supreme Artist
Would you listen to Beethoven again? Why?
Yes. You cannot separate the music from the person. The author told the story of Beethoven and wove in the analysis of his music synchronized with his life.
What other book might you compare Beethoven to and why?
There are other masterpiece books about Beethoven, but this one gave the most expert analysis of the music.
Which scene was your favorite?
Beethoven's writing the Heiligenstadt Testament and his death bed.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
No film could do justice to such a person.
Any additional comments?
Mr. Pritchard is an experienced and excellent narrator. His narration was wonderful, except he mispronounced "Pianoforte" 100s of times.
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- Margaret
- 07-02-18
Informative look at the life of a remarkable man whose fate it was to enlarge the scope of musical expression.
I really loved Swafford's portrait of Brahms, hence the reason I bought this book. Having read Thayer's tome on Beethoven since the age of 12, I was hungry for new insights into the life of Beethoven.
I was delighted to read newer information about Beethoven the man, and felt gratified as Mr. Stafford dispelled all of the silly gossip and rumors (especially the movie "Immortal Beloved) surrounding his loves and his death.
I was a little disappointed when Mr. Stafford would analyse various works throughout the composer's life; although he does point out the turning points in Beethoven's composition styles, his analysis become largely subjective where he could have stuck to the point.
I don't know if it is a Kindle problem, but many of the paintings of Beethoven were not included. Also, links to YouTube performances of his sited compositions would have been a blessing. My Kindle edition was also missing the music scores of the pieces being analysed, with notations regarding the specific uses of harmony and rhythm being described by Swafford.
Overall, I do recommend this work. It is missing some of the objective, detailed analysis that is present in Swafford's Brahms biography, but it does clarify Beethoven's idiosyncratic personality, and the events that changed his life and music. I was able to derive that Beethoven, from an early age, was bent on enlarging the scope of musical expression, and through hard work and self-discipline, he achieved his goal! Lucky for us!
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- Daniel C. Ferrara
- 08-30-22
Narrator Only Strange At First
The narrator is a little strange, fast talking at first but quickly converts to normal speed and is great to listen to. Hang in there for a bit then enjoy this fantastic book.
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- Luis Felipe Llano
- 04-28-17
very good,
too detailed for an audio book sometimes hard to follow but enjoyable. i would recommend it for someone who is classically trained musician.
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- 03-11-19
Listen to Sample Prior to Purchase
Nice content, but I did not like reader's voice - sounded like an announcer on a police TV story from the 1970s.
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- Gary
- 09-17-21
Well worth all 27 hours!!
While I am not schooled in music this book gave me a deep appreciation of the man AND his art. Beethoven is my favorite composer now I appreciate him all the more!
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