Life & Works – Joseph Haydn
unabridged
No great composer’s story is more predominantly happy than Haydn’s, though even his has its share of clouds. A classic rags-to-riches tale, it sees him move from humble beginnings through decades as a liveried servant to his emergence as the most popular and successful composer of his time. One of the healthiest and least neurotic artists in musical history, he did more than any other single figure to pioneer the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet – and he was the first truly great practitioner of each. Brilliant, strikingly original and blessed not only with genius but an infectious sense of humour, he was also profound and modest, and his music, copiously illustrated here, has brought happiness and illumination to millions.
Running Time: 4 h 40 m
Download PDF booklet
More product details
Digital ISBN: 978-1-84379-375-5
Cat. no.: NA558091
Download size: 130 MB
BISAC: BIO004000
Released: September 2003
Due to copyright, this title is not currently available in your region.
Jeremy Siepmann
Jeremy Siepmann has contributed articles, reviews and interviews to numerous journals and reference works, including New Statesman , The Musical Times , Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine . His books include a widely acclaimed biography of Chopin, The Reluctant Romantic . His career as a broadcaster began with a radio series on the life and work of Mozart, described by Alistair Cooke as ‘the best music program on American radio’. He has devised, written, and presented more than 1,000 programmes, including the international award-winning series The Elements of Music .
Titles read by Jeremy Siepmann
Titles read by Jeremy Siepmann
Life & Works – Johann Sebastian Bach (unabridged) Life & Works – Ludwig van Beethoven (unabridged) Life & Works – Johannes Brahms (unabridged) Life & Works – Frédéric Chopin (unabridged) Discover Music of the Romantic Era (unabridged) Life & Works – Antonín Dvořák (unabridged) Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged) Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works (unabridged) The Instruments of the Orchestra (unabridged) The Life and Works of Beethoven (unabridged) The Life and Works of Chopin (unabridged) The Life and Works of Chopin (unabridged) The Life and Works of Liszt (unabridged) Life & Works – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (unabridged) Life & Works – Franz Schubert (unabridged) Life & Works – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (unabridged) Life & Works – Giuseppe Verdi (unabridged)
David Timson
David Timson has worked extensively in BBC Radio Drama since winning the BBC Student Prize in 1971. He has made over a thousand broadcasts and has worked regularly for Naxos AudioBooks as actor, director and writer since 1997. For Naxos AudioBooks, he has recorded the complete Sherlock Holmes stories, five Dickens novels, and a complete unabridged reading of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . In conjunction with Naxos AudioBooks and Cambridge University Press, David has directed five of the successful audio series of Shakespeare’s plays. In 2001, he won the Spoken Word Publishers Association Award for Best Original Production with The History of Theatre , which he wrote, as well as Best Drama Production with Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which he directed. In 2002 he won the Audiobook of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet . Since 2004, he has been a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Titles read by David Timson
Titles read by David Timson
1,000 Years of Laughter (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume IV (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume V (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume VI (unabridged) Opera Explained – Aida (unabridged) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged) Annals (unabridged) Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (unabridged) Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (unabridged) Life & Works – Johann Sebastian Bach (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Barber of Seville (unabridged) Life & Works – Ludwig van Beethoven (unabridged) Blithe Spirit (unabridged) Life & Works – Johannes Brahms (unabridged) The Great Poets – Robert Browning (selections) Opera Explained – Carmen (unabridged) The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) Opera Explained – Cavalleria rusticana (unabridged) The Christmas Collection (unabridged) Christmas Stories (unabridged) Classic Comic Verse (selections) Classic Erotic Verse (selections) The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (selections) The Compleat Angler (unabridged) The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (unabridged) Opera Explained – Così fan tutte (unabridged) Dangerous Liaisons (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume IV (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume V (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged) Opera Explained – Die Fledermaus (unabridged) Dombey and Son (abridged) Dombey and Son (unabridged) Opera Explained – Don Giovanni (unabridged) Essays (unabridged) The Fable of the Bees (unabridged) The Faerie Queene (unabridged) Fairy Tales (unabridged) Opera Explained – Falstaff (unabridged) A Family Christmas (unabridged) Favourite Poems for Children (selections) Opera Explained – Fidelio (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Flying Dutchman (unabridged) The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga (unabridged) The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2: A Modern Comedy (unabridged) The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3: End of the Chapter (unabridged) From Shakespeare – with love (selections) The Gallic War (unabridged) Ghost Stories (unabridged) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (unabridged) Opera Explained – Gilbert and Sullivan (unabridged) The Golden Ass (unabridged) Hamlet (unabridged) Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged) Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works (unabridged) Henry V (unabridged) Histories (unabridged) The Histories (unabridged) The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin (unabridged) The Hound of the Baskervilles (Educational Edition) (unabridged) Young Adult Classics – The Hound of the Baskervilles (abridged) The Hound of the Baskervilles (unabridged) Opera Explained – Il trovatore (unabridged) The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 1 (unabridged) The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 2 (unabridged) The Interpretation of Dreams (unabridged) Jason and the Argonauts (unabridged) Julius Caesar (unabridged) King Richard III (unabridged) Opera Explained – La Bohème (unabridged) Opera Explained – La sonnambula (unabridged) Opera Explained – La Traviata (unabridged) The Life and Works of Beethoven (unabridged) The Life of Mozart (unabridged) The Life of Samuel Johnson (unabridged) A Life of Shakespeare (abridged) London Labour and the London Poor (unabridged) Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged) The Love Poems (unabridged) Opera Explained – L’elisir d’amore (unabridged) Macbeth (unabridged) Opera Explained – Madama Butterfly (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Magic Flute (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Marriage of Figaro (unabridged) Memoirs of My Life (unabridged) The Merchant of Venice (unabridged) The Middle Way (unabridged) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (unabridged) The Moonstone (unabridged) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unabridged) On War (unabridged) Opera Explained – Orfeo (unabridged) Opera Explained – Orfeo ed Euridice (unabridged) Our Mutual Friend (abridged) Our Mutual Friend (unabridged) Opera Explained – Pagliacci (unabridged) Opera Explained – Pelléas et Mélisande (unabridged) The Persian Expedition (unabridged) The Pickwick Papers (unabridged) The Pleasures of the Garden (selections) Poems of the Orient (selections) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (abridged) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (unabridged) Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged) Opera Explained – Rigoletto (unabridged) The Secret History (unabridged) The Sign of Four (unabridged) The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections) Sketches by Boz (abridged) Stories from Shakespeare 3 (unabridged) Stories from Shakespeare – The Plantagenets (unabridged) A Study in Scarlet (unabridged) Symposium (unabridged) Opera Explained – Tancredi (unabridged) Life & Works – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (unabridged) Opera Explained – Tosca (unabridged) The Trial and Death of Socrates (unabridged) Opera Explained – Turandot (unabridged) Twelfth Night (unabridged) The Valley of Fear (unabridged) Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece (unabridged) Life & Works – Giuseppe Verdi (unabridged) The Way of All Flesh (unabridged) Opera Explained – Werther (unabridged) Wuthering Heights (Educational Edition) (unabridged) Wuthering Heights (unabridged)
Sam Dastor
Sam Dastor studied English at Cambridge and trained at RADA. His early theatrical experience included a spell at the National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier. In the West End he has appeared as Ariel to Paul Scofield’s Prospero and in three of Simon Gray’s plays – Melon , Hidden Laughter , and Cell Mates . For the RSC he has been seen in Timon of Athens , Tales from Ovid and a world tour of A Servant To Two Masters . His many television appearances include I, Claudius ; Yes, Minister ; Mountbatten ; Julius Caesar and Fortunes of War . He has also appeared in the films Made , Jinnah and Such A Long Journey , recorded over 1000 broadcasts for the BBC and read numerous audiobooks including Kim and A Passage To India . He has also read Great Explorers for Naxos AudioBooks.
Titles read by Sam Dastor
Titles read by Sam Dastor
Great Explorers of the World (unabridged) Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged) A House for Mr Biswas (unabridged) The Merchant of Venice (unabridged) The Mimic Men (unabridged)
Roger May
Roger May has done over eighty radio plays and spent a year with the BBC Radio Drama Company in 1995–6, following that with a season at the RSC. Amongst his TV appearances are Mosley , Peak Practice and Hornblower and, on film, The Scarlet Tunic and An Ideal Husband .
Titles read by Roger May
Titles read by Roger May
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (unabridged) Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1 (unabridged) Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 2 (unabridged) Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 3 (unabridged) Classic Comic Verse (selections) Frankenstein (Educational Edition) (unabridged) Frankenstein (unabridged) Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged) Henry V (unabridged) Julius Caesar (unabridged) Othello (unabridged) The Professor (unabridged) Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll (selections) The Time Machine (unabridged)
