Stories of Symphonic Music
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LibriVox recording of Stories of Symphonic Music by Lawrence Gilman.
Read in English by Lynne T; WilkieMills; Lynda Marie Neilson; Monika M. C.; Larry Wilson; Kathleen Moore; Grant Hicks; Greg Giordano; Jan Moorehouse; DJRickyV; realisticspeakers; Mayah; schrm
'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the stories behind some famous and not so famous works. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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M4B Audiobook (283MB)
- Preface (9.8Mb)
- THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST (13.6Mb)
- BANTOCK (8.9Mb)
- BEETHOVEN (20.6Mb)
- BERLIOZ (21Mb)
- BIZET (8.6Mb)
- CHADWICK (11.4Mb)
- CHARPENTIER (6.5Mb)
- CHAUSSON (8.2Mb)
- CONVERSE (11.4Mb)
- DEBUSSY (10.5Mb)
- DUKAS (8.3Mb)
- DVORAK (14.8Mb)
- ELGAR (15.7Mb)
- FRANCK (12.5Mb)
- GLAZOUNOFF (7.5Mb)
- GOLDMARK (6Mb)
- GRIEG (6.1Mb)
- HADLEY (7.2Mb)
- HUBER (9.1Mb)
- d'INDY (10.5Mb)
- LISZT (54.2Mb)
- LOEFFLER (17.6Mb)
- MAC DOWELL (13.8Mb)
- MENDELSSOHN (18.1Mb)
- RAFF (15.1Mb)
- RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF (23.2Mb)
- SAINT-SAENS (7.1Mb)
- SCHUMANN (8.7Mb)
- SIBELIUS (7.9Mb)
- SMETANA (4.6Mb)
- SPOHR (7Mb)
- STRAUSS part 1 (43Mb)
- STRAUSS part 2 (24.3Mb)
- TSCHAIKOWSKY part 1 (31.3Mb)
- TSCHAIKOWSKY part 2 (41.2Mb)
- WAGNER (10.5Mb)
- WOLF (8.6Mb)
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