Inventive Classical Music
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the "Bang on a Can" festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event. Read more
View audiobookThe World in Six Songs - Abridged
By: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)
Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets... Read more
Divided Soul - Abridged
By: David Ritz
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges here is a... Read more
View audiobookLife With My Sister Madonna - Abridged
By: Christopher Ciccone
Narrated by: Christopher Ciccone
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now in paperback, Christopher Ciccone’s “breathless tell-all” (Time) based on his fortyseven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding one of the most famous women of our time—Madonna.
Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind the woman who has intrigued, scandalized, and entertained millions for half... Read more
Vince Ebert: Die jetzt aber wirklich große Show! - Abridged
By: Vince Ebert
Narrated by: Vince Ebert
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Comedy ist wie das Leben: Am einen Tag geht's runter, am anderen läufts auch nicht gut! Vince Ebert, geboren am 23.5.68 im Odenwald, hatte als Diplomphysiker gar keine Wahl: Er musste auf die Comedy-Bühne. 1998 mit dem ersten Soloprogramm gestartet, kam er schnell auf die Bühnen renommierter deutscher Theater und ins Fernsehen: Ottis Schlachthof... Read more
View audiobookJourney of a Thousand Miles
By: Lang Lang & David Ritz
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number... Read more
View audiobookLang Lang: Playing With Flying Keys
By: Lang Lang
Narrated by: Andrew Pang
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Lang Lang started learning to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world’s most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling, events of his early days, but also shares his perspective on his rapidly... Read more
View audiobookRadio Teddy - Bärenhöhle 01 - Abridged
By: Jörg Spielberg
Narrated by: Tom Deininger
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Radio Teddy ist das erste Kinder- und Familienradio Deutschlands. Seit August 2005 sendet es erfolgreich sein Programm für die ganze Familie in Berlin und in Brandenburg. Die Macher etablierten es als eine art Gütesiegel für kind- und familiengerechte Unterhaltung. Die Philosophie des Programms ist einfach: Der Tagesverlauf wird jeweils auf... Read more
View audiobookRadio Teddy - Bärenhöhle 02 - Abridged
By: Jörg Friedberg
Narrated by: Tom Deininger
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: Yes
Radio Teddy ist das erste Kinder- und Familienradio Deutschlands. Seit August 2005 sendet es erfolgreich sein Programm für die ganze Familie in Berlin und in Brandenburg. Die Macher etablierten es als eine art Gütesiegel für kind- und familiengerechte Unterhaltung. Die Philosophie des Programms ist einfach: Der Tagesverlauf wird jeweils auf... Read more
View audiobookKinderträume - Abridged
By: Pete Winter, Steve Summer & Mark Winter
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: Yes
Beruhigende Melodien und kleine Erzählungen nehmen Ihre Kinder an die Hand und führen sie sanft zu Entspannung und Erholung. So werden die Erlebnisse des Alltags mit Musik in der eigenen Fantasie besser verarbeitet. Read more
View audiobookThe Gruffalo Song and Other Songs
By: Julia Donaldson
Narrated by: Julia Donaldson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Created by star pairing Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the Gruffalo is a familiar and much-loved figure in nurseries, schools and homes everywhere. Now he returns in his very own song to offer truly monster music sessions!
As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children, and... Read more
Room on the Broom and Other Songs
By: Julia Donaldson
Narrated by: Julia Donaldson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Sing along with Julia Donaldson and her collection of songs – fun for kids and parents alike.
As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children.
Room on the Broom and Other Songs includes nine of her best-loved songs. The songs will be familiar to anyone who has heard them on TV or... Read more
Oper - Abridged
By: Franz Binder
Narrated by: Franz Binder
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Nirgends wird so schön gestorben, so glühend geliebt, so ergreifend gelitten, so betörend betrogen, so mitreißend Rache geübt wie auf der Bühne der Leidenschaften, begleitet von hinschmelzender, aufrührender, rauschhafter, rasender Musik. Die ganze Welt und noch viel mehr hat Platz auf der Bühne hinter dem Orchestergraben und wird zum Fest für... Read more
View audiobookBeacon Street Girls #4: Out of Bounds
By: Annie Bryant
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Can the Beacon Street Girls' magic act bring the house down at Abigail Adams Junior High's talent show? Maeve, Avery, Katani, Isabel, and Charlotte face their toughest challenges yet -- keeping the Movie House from going out of business and helping Isabel deal with too many demands from the Queens of Mean. Plus, Maeve's relationship with Dillon... Read more
View audiobookThe Soloist
By: Steve Lopez
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—now a major motion picture from DreamWorks starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he found it impossible to... Read more
View audiobookGirls Like Us
By: Sheila Weller
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 22 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in... Read more
View audiobookWorking For Your Soul
By: Thomas Moore, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
If your life is going along in a straight line there is little room for a creative change of direction. If you have a gnawing question about something better that might be waiting around the bend, Moore points to unexpected signs that it might help you make space to find fulfillment in a more creative direction in your life. Read more
View audiobookSongs in the Key of My Life
By: Ferentz Lafargue
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Dumped by his fiancEe, rising literary star Ferentz Lafargue had a chance encounter with the seminal Stevie Wonder album Songs in the Key of Life. Healed by the songs, Lafargue was inspired to look at how music has shaped his life. In this entertaining memoir, he shares recollections of Michael Jackson, aerosmith, Kanye West, and many others. Read more
View audiobookA Personal Stand
By: Trace Adkins
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work,... Read more
View audiobookMozart El Niño Prodigio
By: Various
Narrated by: Various
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Como era la vida diaria de ese niño, Mozart, que a los cinco años tocaba ante los reyes y componía sinfonías, es la base de esta dramatización.
The daily life of Mozart, who at the age of five was playing in front of kings and composing symphonies, is the subject of this dramatization.
Note: This is audiobook is in Spanish. Read more
The Rest Is Noise
By: Alex Ross
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 23 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker,... Read more
View audiobookMusicophilia
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more
View audiobookMusicophilia - Abridged
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more
View audiobookClapton
By: Eric Clapton
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable... Read more
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