Audiobooks by Richard Fawkes

História da Ópera

Desde suas origens, no século XVI, a ópera sempre foi uma paixão extravagante e cara, mas deixou para a humanidade algumas das mais sublimes obras de arte, criadas por compositores de todos os tempos, de Monteverdi a Philip Glass, passando por Mozart, Wagner, Puccini e tantos outros. Traduzido a partir do audiolivro em inglês The History of Opera, de Richard Fawkes, este audiolivro conta a história da ópera desde suas origens, abordando a vida e a obra dos grandes compositores. O texto trata também das importantes manifestações na área da opereta. A tradução para português teve a supervisão do crítico musical e professor de história da música Irineu Franco Perpetuo. Para ilustrar o desenvolvimento dessa forma de arte e os principais aspectos abordados, foram utilizados cerca de 80 trechos musicais. O jornalista e crítico musical Irineu Franco Perpetuo escreve sobre música para a Folha de S. Paulo e para a revista Concerto. Também atua como professor, dando cursos sobre diferentes aspectos e períodos da história da música na Casa do Saber.

Richard Fawkes (Author), Irineu Franco Perpetuo (Narrator)

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The History of The Musical

A major production for Naxos AudioBooks and a unique Audiobook, this bold and entertaining undertaking traces the musical from its origins in classical music (Gay's The Beggar's Opera, Offenbach's operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America; Showboat, Anything Goes, High Society, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oliver, Cabaret, A Little Night Music, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of the Opera - the list is endless. So are the stars who made the musicals live the composers, Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber; the famous partnerships such as Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe; the performers Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Howard Keel, Julie Andrews... and the tempestuous creative background to the productions themselves. With over 120 musical examples illustrating this remarkable story, the history of the musical in all its glory comes alive. Features over 100 musical examples.

Richard Fawkes (Author), Kim Criswell (Narrator)

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The History of Opera

Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. Following the widely acclaimed History of Classical Music, Richard Fawkes traces the history of opera up to the present day on the first three CDs, and devotes the fourth to the history of operetta. Featuring more than seventy-five musical examples.

Richard Fawkes (Author), Nicolas Soames, Robert Powell (Narrator)

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The History of Classical Music

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years. From Gregorian chant to Stravinsky and Gorecki, 150 musical excerpts illustrate the narrative.

Richard Fawkes (Author), Robert Powell (Narrator)

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