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MCCLEERY, D.: Discover Music of the Romantic Era (Unabridged)

Author(s):
Artist(s)
Period(s) 20th Century • Classical (1750-1830) • Romantic
Genre Classical Music • Spoken Word
Category Chamber Music • Concertos • Instrumental • Non-Fiction • Opera • Orchestral • Vocal
Catalogue NA495212
Label Naxos AudioBooks
Quality   48kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 17.00
 

 

Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world’s best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of the period: Discover Music of the Romantic Era charts the course of music through these turbulent but exhilarating times. This light-hearted but authoritative audiobook tells the fascinating, often scandalous, life-stories of the 19th century’s greatest composers.


   




Review By Yuri Rasovsky,AudioFile,July 2009

For some of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and most of the nineteenth, “romantic” music dominated the concert halls of Europe and America. Ever expanding the scope of musical grammar, it sought to express deeply felt emotional states, tell rousing stories, and evoke beautiful pictures. The works of its composers remain among the most universally enjoyed in the classical repertoire. While Naxos’s critical history of the era is cursory, on the plus side, the recording contains spirited musical illustrations. Critical analyses of individual compositions are clearly stated and illuminating. Narrator Jeremy Siepmann has a pleasant, mature British sound. He employs it in a documentary style that is placid but never dull.



Review By Frank Behrens,Brattleboro Reformer,May 2009

Music of the Romantic Era—There have been many biographies of great composers on Naxos CDs, every one of which I have reviewed over the past several years. “Discover the Music of the Romantic Era” is a different approach to classical music. I should say, “Romantic music,” which was a reaction to the clean “Classical” lines of composers such as Haydn and the younger Mozart.

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