More By Artist: Lesser
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HOMER
The Odyssey (unabridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 10 CD Box Set - released 28/May/2007 ] The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (unabridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 9 CD Box Set - released 31/Oct/2005 ] Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe.' So begins the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained (unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve and forced their departure from the Garden of Eden, here he sets out to tempt again-this time Jesus himself as he comes to the end of his forty days in the... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (abridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/May/2005 ] Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit of the Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe…' Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and... |
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Way Through the Woods, and other favourite poems Anton Lesser, Anne Harvey, Katinka Wolf, narrators [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] There are complete stories here - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Lady of Shalott - and humor aplenty, whether it is the music hall mischief of Dahn the Plughole or the more sinister touches of Binyon's Hunger. |
LAURENCE STERNE
A Sentimental Journey (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne's lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he... |
CHARLES DICKENS
A Tale Of Two Cities (Abridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 28/Nov/2005 ] It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens's only historical novel, sets personal happiness against the terrors of the French Revolution where the search for social justice sacrifices individual rights... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 15 CD Box Set - released 30/Jul/2007 ] Narrated in the first person, Great Expectations tells the story of Philip Pirrip (known as Pip) from his disadvantaged start as an orphan in the Kent marshes to the improvement in his position following an anonymous allowance. Pip moves to London... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Little Dorrit (Abridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] In Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens created one of his most penetrating satires on the weaknesses of government in the Victorian era. He chose Marshalsea debtors' prison as the setting, where his own father had been imprisoned. The story revolves... |
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
A Tale Of Two Cities (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 12 CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] 'It was the best of times and the worst of times.' In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope and self-sacrifice... |
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Chantclare: contemporary vocal music Clare Lesser (soprano) David Lesser (piano) [ Metier / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] |
MURAIL
Winter Fragments Erin Lesser (flute) / Argento Chamber Ensemble / Michel Galante [ Aeon / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Flutist Erin Lesser has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Canada, Europe and the USA, and was hailed as a "superb flutist" by the New York Times. |
JEREMY SIEPMANN
The Life and Works of Chopin (Unabridged) Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with Anton Lesser as Chopin [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 30/Apr/2001 ] The second in our series of musical biographies, written and presented by broadcaster Jeremy Siepmann, with Anton Lesser as Chopin. In this set, the life and music of the revolutionary composer/pianist is unveiled in considerable detail. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Life and Works Narrated biography with extensive musical examples Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with Anton Lesser as Chopin [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerising performers of his day, he lives on in his music - his waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much more. |
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Lesser
Homer: The Iliad [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD - released 31/Jul/2006 ] |
Lesser
Suppressive Acts I-X [ Matador Records / CD - released 26/Apr/2004 ] A collection of songs that bind a history of metal to a career in electronica, re-using a base of 50 or so samples and manipulating them enough to render them useful across an entire album. |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Boys Anton Lesser, Roy McMillan, Benjamin Soames [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Casabianca and John Keats's A Song About Myself, to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Henry... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (unabridged) Sean Baker / Emma Fielding / Anton Lesser / Benjamin Soames / Edward de Souza and full cast [ Naxos Audio Books / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy... |
VARIOUS AUTHORS
Favourite Poems for Children (unabridged) Anton Lesser, Roy McMillan, Rachel Bavidge [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Readers such as Anton Lesser, Simon Russell-Beale and Timothy West bring the lines beautifully to life and make this an ideal introduction to some of the best-loved children's poetry. |
