Composers' Letters Audiobook By Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart cover art

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Composers' Letters

By: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza
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In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many more talk openly about their music, their hopes and fears, their lives, their sadness, and their struggles in realizing their artistic hopes in a commercial world. Poignant, funny, revealing, informative and so often direct and honest, these letters offer a fascinating insight into the personalities that created our Western musical tradition.

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In a perfect and perfectly delightful use of the audio format, this offering pairs accomplished and well-cast actors with letters written by famous composers. The letters are given chronologically, from J.S. Bach's writing about career and money difficulties in the seventeenth century through the letters of Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and others up to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky in the twentieth. A brief and helpful historical note precedes each composer's section, and, best of all, the music he's writing about accompanies and illuminates the words. Age-appropriate actors voice composers writing in old age while lighter, boyish voices bring us young Mozart or Chopin as a determined and very broke youth writing home from Paris.
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Loving all the great composers I was pleasantly surprised Naxos has made this delightful collection. For any lover of classical musoc, I would highly recommend. For others, it will probably not mean much. Listen to the masters’ work then come back to this little book.

A Charming Little Collection.

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Whose idea was it to mix the music so loud that you can’t hear the narrative? It’s also very inconsistent from track to track.

Music overpowers the narrative

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