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More Famous Composers

The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US. Here, Henley and the Naxos AudioBooks team bring the combination of an entertaining but informative ‘life’ and numerous musical selections to a further set of six composers.

Running Time: 2 h 17 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-406-5
Cat. no.:	NA242212
Download size:	33 MB
BISAC:	JNF007040
Released:	February 2007

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Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop is one of the leading American conductors, criss-crossing continents to perform with orchestras in the US, Europe and Asia. Born in New York, the daughter of two professional musicians, she went to the Juilliard School as a violinist. But she soon took up conducting, forming her own orchestra and arranging concerts. She won the Stokowski competition and the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood, where she was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier. She has conducted many of the key orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has had a long association with the Colorado Symphony, first as musical director and then as music director laureate. In 2002 she became principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, though she also conducts other UK orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Marin Alsop made history when she was chosen as the new music director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She is the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra. She has recorded a well-regarded cycle of Barber’s orchestral works for Naxos as well as a Brahms symphony cycle and music by Adams, Glass, Weill and Bartók. She has also narrated The Story of Classical Music for Naxos AudioBooks. In 2003 she won both the Gramophone Artist of the Year award and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s conducting award, and in 2005 she received the prestigious Classical Brit award for Female Artist of the Year. Marin enjoys introducing all her concerts and talking about music – she features regularly as a speaker on radio in the UK and US.

Titles read by Marin Alsop

Titles read by Marin Alsop: Famous Composers (unabridged); More Famous Composers (unabridged); The Story of Classical Music (unabridged)

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Handel
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Rachmaninov
John Williams

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

A follow-up to the Audie Award-winning Famous Composers, this delightful production focuses on portraits of Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and contemporary artist Paul Williams. Following the same successful formula as the first production, it provides interesting biographical facts about each composer, brief re-enactments from their lives, and pieces of important works. The pleasantly voiced Marin Alsop once again acts as musical tour guide, giving historical context and sharing engaging bits of information (did you know that Handel’s father didn’t want him to be a musician or that Rachmaninov had enormous octave-scaling hands?) while also calling our attention to interesting, illustrative moments in the music. Though clearly designed for children, this engaging audio experience is educational for a wide audience.

J.C.G., AudioFile

Darren Henley

More Famous Composers

Read by Marin Alsop

unabridged

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