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HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
She - A History of Adventure (Abridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Nov/2011 ] Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is... |
STENDHAL
The Red and the Black (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Young Julien Sorel, the son of a country timber merchant, carries a portrait of his hero Napoleon Bonaparte and dreams of military glory. A brilliant career in the Church leads him into Parisian high society, where, 'mounted upon the finest horse in... |
VICTOR HUGO
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged) Bill Homewood, narrator [ Naxos Audio Books / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Bill Homewood has an extensive record of leading classical roles with major companies: including the RSC. Television credits include Spy Trap, Crocodile Shoes, and his own series, Wise Guy. |
EDGAR WALLACE
The Four Just Men (Unabridged) Bill Homewood, narrator [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The mysterious Four Just Men are wealthy Europeans who move easily in high society but, capable of convincing disguise and brilliant acting, are as likely to be found on the street corners of London as at the dinner tables of Paris and Rome. They are... |
Gary Daverne
Gypsy Girl Billy T James (narrator) [ Viscount / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Music is by Gary Daverne, story and words by Ruth Hamilton and recorded with Billy T. James as the narrator. |
HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
She (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD Box Set - released 2/Mar/2011 ] Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is... |
David Bowie (narrator) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy / Boston Pops / Arthur Fiedler
Prokofiev: Peter & The Wolf (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Oct/2014 ] David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf (1978) is a classical music album containing David Bowie's narration of Sergei Prokofiev's 1936 composition Peter And The Wolf. The music is performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev: Cinderella / Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Children's Classics) Brian Cant (narrator) / National Symphony Orch of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar (conductor) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orch. / Andrew Mogrelia (conductor [ Naxos Children's Classics / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Brian Cant has a nice, light and understated touch in his story-telling, with a bit of the Edith Evans for the Fairy Godmother and a touching wonderment to match Prokofiev's scintillating score." Daily Telegraph |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals / Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Britten-Pears Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor & narrator) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "I still find good recordings of children's music like this new one on Naxos quite special...this may be the ideal recording in many ways. I thoroughly recommend this totally enjoyable recording." MusicWeb |
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby (Abridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2005 ] One of Dickens's earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Oliver Twist (Unabridged) Jonathan Keeble (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Oliver Twist is a poor orphan in a cruel society. Maltreated from birth, he escapes only to become an accidental member of a gang of pickpockets and robbers. Briefly rescued, he is then kidnapped as part of a plot to defraud him of his inheritance,... |
ANDERSON / COPLAND / CORIGLIANO / IVES / SCHUMAN / etc
Leonard Slatkin - The American Collection Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (narrator) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Music Masters / 13 CD Box Set - released 25/Apr/2018 ] "It is certainly one of the best symphonies by an American composer, possibly one of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century." [Corigliano Symphony 1] |
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LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Ruinen von Athen [The Ruins of Athens] Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam, with Angela Eberlein (narrator) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Die Ruinen von Athen ('The Ruins of Athens') was composed to celebrate the opening of the new German theatre in Pest in 1812. Designed to accompany the play of that name by August von Kotzebue, its incidental music is substantial enough to form a... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario Christopher Plummer (narrator) Celia Nicklin (oboe) / Academy of St.Martin / Sir Neville Marriner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'Chandos's stunning sound captures with unflinching ease the rousing spectacle of the battle music at full tilt. In all, another winner of a CD in what's turning out to be a most distinguished series.' Hi-Fi News |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish' / Missa Brevis / etc Claire Bloom (narrator), Kelley Nassief (soprano) Paulo Mestre (countertenor) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Maryland State Boychoir, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] "Claire Bloom delivers [Kaddish] in a calm, inward manner, as if at prayer, without the fierce anger generated on Bernstein's first recording…despite assured, purposeful contributions by the choirs..." - BBC Music Magazine |
KATY ABBOTT
The Peasant Prince: A Symphonic Tale Cunxin Li (Narrator) / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Banjamin Northey [ ABC Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] The Peasant Prince tells the inspiring story of Li Cunxin, better known as 'Mao's Last Dancer': his childhood and his journey to become one of the world's greatest ballet dancers. |
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DAVID ANGUS
Moses and other stories from the Old Testament (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] Here are the main stories from The Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Moses, The Ten Commandments, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lion's Den and more. In these days where religion... |
David Attenborough (narrator)
Africa - Eye to Eye with the Unknown (3 Blu-Ray Disc) [ BBC Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Mar/2013 ] An amazing new perspective on the landscapes and creatures of Africa's wildest places. This is the world's wildest continent as you've never seen it before - an intense sensory adventure from the Atlas Mountains, through the Savannah lands... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Dickens: Selections from Sketches by Boz (Abridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2012 ] Dickens's renowned skill for keen social observation and, more specifically, his incredibly detailed knowledge of London and its theatres, prisons and inns, is perfectly realised in Sketches by Boz. Many of the themes he goes on to explore in his... |
