Composers' Letters

 
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MOZART / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / WAGNER / TCHAIKOVSKY / SATIE / HOLST / STRAVINSKY / etc
Composers' Letters
Read by Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza, Anton Lesser, Benjamin Soames & Hugo Godwin

[ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 1 January 1995

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 love, their sadness and their struggles in realising 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.

Tracks:

Disc 1
1 George Frederick Handel 03:40
2 Johann Sebastian Bach 08:53
3 Christoph Willibald Gluck 06:05
4 Josef Haydn 05:19
5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 12:05
6 Ludwig Van Beethoven 04:18
7 Franz Schubert 04:26
8 Hector Berlioz 07:36
9 Felix Mendelssohn 08:58
10 Robert Schumann 10:31

Disc 2
1 Richard Wagner 09:11
2 Giuseppe Verdi 08:26
3 Johannes Brahms 06:29
4 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 11:47
5 Antonin Dvorak 05:34
6 Edward Elgar 03:44
7 Giacomo Puccini 02:16
8 Claude Achille Debussy 04:37
9 Frederick Delius 02:55
10 Erik Satie 04:21
11 Gustav Holst 05:36
12 Igor Stravinsky 03:37
13 Gustav Mahler 07:37