| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 59 min.)) : digital. |
| Cast |
Jasper Britton (Brahms), Karen Archer (Christiane Brahms, Clara Schumann), Ruth Sillers (Eugenie Schumann, Agathe von Siebold, Frau Friedländer, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, Mrs. Partington), Neville Jason (Joseph Joachim, von Sahr, Specht, Hans von Bülow, Critics), Nicholas Boulton (Georg Henschel, Albert Dietrich, Max Kalbeck, Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schauffler, Dr. Breuer), Steve Hodson (Eduard Marxsen, Robert Schumann, Selmar Bagge, Edward Bernsdorf, Karl Martin Reinthaler, Theodor Billroth, Eduard Hanslick, Bronsiław Huberman), David Timson (Arnold Schlönbach, Julius Schmidt, Hermann Levi, Joseph Widmann, Julius Wachsmann). |
| Summary |
Brahms is one of the best loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful. Though humble, he was consumed by a sense of destiny, and his inner life, coloured by his adoration and fear of women, found expression in some of the greatest music ever written. Listening to this audio-biography is leaping inside the life and times of a great German Romantic, understanding the man who was haunted by the ghost of Beethoven for years and was forty-three before he wrote his first symphony. Accompanied by a richly detailed booklet, this 4-CD set is a sympathetic, absorbing account of a fascinating composer. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Composers -- Biography.
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Sonatas (Piano)
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Concertos (Piano)
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| Added Author |
Britton, Jasper.
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Archer, Karen, 1948-
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Sillers, Ruth.
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Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.
Works. Selections. 2002.
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hoopla digital.
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| Note |
Booklet running title: Life and works : Johannes Brahms |
| ISBN |
9781843793748 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1843793741 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11137440 |
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